Our experience with SATA in enterprise SANs corroborates your findings. Only under the heaviest loads do you see the power of SAS with a good SAN.
And it saves lots of loot! On Mar 25, 2010 4:41 PM, "Kim Longenbaugh" <[email protected]> wrote: We have several EQ arrays here, all SATA, and like the other two posters, enjoy good performance from them. Some people will drag out the old adage about SATA drives not being as reliable as SAS or plain SCSI drives, but that has not been our experience with the EQ drives. ------------------------------ *From:* N Parr [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Equallogic and Sata I've had a PS5000 for a little over a year and just added a PS6000. Both are running SATA driv... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
