I think you've tarred both SATA and Shook with a bad brush. In both cases, while what you've said may have been true in the past is not necessarily true anymore.
SATA has become much more reliable and capable, especially the "server-class" drives used by the SAN vendors. We have SATA drives in our EQ arrays that have been running 24/7 for three years with zero problems. Of course, there's always exceptions like a bad batch or two. Mr. Shook has, I have it from good sources, made major efforts to change his life for the better too. In both cases, people are holding on to the old and refusing to recognize the new. (ok, I know in Shook's case, it's all in fun). I guess that us IT folks are no different than anybody else, we don't let reality alter our perceptions of how things are. From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [maybe spam] RE: Small server Why shun SATA? SATA is a lot like Shookie Baby: Cheap Prone to failure Prone to overheat Never has enough cache Usually runs in bad batches Webster "who just loves to pick on Shookem and wonders why Shookem hasn't taken out a TRO or PRO yet!) From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: Re: Small server curious, why do you shun SATA ? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
