Rita Ä Berkowitz ritaberk2O04 @aol.com wrote:

willbill wrote:

bloody SATA connectors (electrical)!

i've come across connection issues
with my (admittedly limited) use
of SATA drives, both data and power,
most recently power

what an aggrevation!

are others seeing this?

No, since I use SCSI with SCA connectors these problems are nonexistent.
You get what you pay for. SATA drives are basically toys equivalent to
what comes out of a gumball machine.

I recently read a report from Google, and it basically comes down to, that
SATA drives aren't necessarily worse than SCSI or FC drives. Here's
the link:

Message-ID:
http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5038
http://storagemojo.com/?p=383
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/...tml/index.html
http://216.239.37.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf

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Alexander Skwar