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On Jun 21, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> b. are ppl actually using/promoting SATA drives in a server  
> environment?
>    Or are we just talking about situations where you have a large  
> number
>    of spindles to work with?  My one experience with an SATA  
> configuration
>    is that the server doesn't *feel* like its performing as well as my
>    SCSI servers do ... under load ...

That  may have as much to do as the controller and driver as the  
drive type.

Chad

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