Am 10.07.2012 05:59, schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
That's simply not true Reindl.
SATA drives are being used very widely in production today, and outnumber SAS deployments by a very wide margin.
for SOHO with no public services, yes
Google has more public facing services, servers, than anyone, and Google uses only SATA drives, zero SAS. They also host more mail spools and mailboxes than anyone. Again, all on SATA drives.
Now I'm sure you'll tell us why Google doesn't count for some reason in this discussion, why their use of SATA isn't relevant somehow
DAMNED: why do you restart this thread again after enough mails it shopuld be stopped?
finally it does not botehr me which hardware-crap who is using as long mine critical one are only 14 SAS disks for a lot of virtual servers, all with dual channel, redundant and hotplug-able
however:
because google generally has the strategy to use cheap hardware in huge masses with very high redundancy while SAS stands for high ability (dual channel ports) with higher pricses but less hardware at all