Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hmm ... well, there is a considerable price difference, so unless someone
> > says I'm horribly mistaken, I now want to go back to Barracuda ES 1TB 7200
> > drives. By the way, how many of those would saturate a single (non trunked)
> > Gig ethernet link ? Workload NFS sharing of software and homes. I think 4
> > disks should be about enough to saturate it ?
> >
>
> SAS has far greater performance, and if your workload is extremely random,
> will have a longer MTBF. SATA drives suffer badly on random workloads.
The SATA Barracuda ST310003 I recently bought has a MTBF of 136 years.
If you believe that you may compare MTBF values in the range > 100 years,
you may do something wrong.
Jörg
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