I can get a large SATA disk pretty cheap, but this board doesn't accept
SATA.
Anyone have any thoughts on whether I should just pay more for a smaller
PATA or get the SATA.
If I get the SATA, I will need to buy either a SATA pci card or get a
SATA to IDE adapter.
Are there any problems I should expect with these two choices for SATA?
Well, I just finish one more replacement of SATA drive today. The forth
time, yes you read it, 4 times so far in 2 years. Yes it is on a busy
database, but never the less, I thought that SATA wasn't sooooo bad!
Even IDE drives were better then that. I reach the conclusion and will
start this process to trash, yes trash any thing I use that happened to
use SATA. I guess newer doesn't mean better and that cheap may be good
for really cheap stuff as long as you really don't care about the data
or the time wasted rebuilding this stuff.
Call me stupid, but I miss the OLD SCSI. At a minimum, they were fast,
reliable, yes when they blow up they could just jam hard real fast, but
in most cases, you got sign of them falling before they did. This SATA
crap is really the worst drives I have seen in a long time. Of all 4,
they were Western Digital, Seagate and Fujitsu.
I guess the only choices now is to use SAS and that's about it as all
others are going out of the market, or use solid state drives, witch are
still pretty expensive when the size go high.
So, do as you wish, but if you asked me, put a bit more money in it and
get better drives then SATA one.
Every one have their opinion, but if the drives are real busy, I don't
think many would recommend to use SATA unless you use softraid and all,
but even then, I guess they might suggest to still use something better.
I know I am done with SATA drives experience have proven it just way to
clearly to me!
Best,
Daniel
