[geeks] SATA Cards

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> At this point, it's "cheapest total cost", even the smallest new drives
> on the market being an order of magnitude bigger than what the machine
> needs.  But actually, it turns out my original assumption stands.  Hard
> disk storage has gotten insanely cheap ... IFF you can use SATA.  If you
> want a *new* (not reconditioned) SCSI disk, you're pretty much fucked.
> The entire SCSI disk market, aside from a few major-vendor-branded
> pre-mounted server disks still priced at several dollars per gigabyte,
> seems to be people reselling the same stock of multiply reconditioned
> disks over and over.  It doesn't look like you can even buy SATA-1.5GB
> disks new any more; everything new is SATA-3.0GB.

Many of our drives at work these days are now SAS.  2.5" 10K RPM SAS.

Peace...  Sridhar