flux wrote:

Point is that reliability of ATA is nowhere near
that of Scsi or FC. Once you get down into the desktop class drives

This statement is just fiction. Drives today are roughly the same in reliability, marketing claims notwithstanding.

And drive tech is finicky and rapidly changing, which means you can have
a lot of 'duds' from an otherwise reputable brand. You only discover
this after a year or so, as resin attcks wires, oil evaporates, bearings
crash, heads overheat, or whatnot.


Thomas