SAS vs SATA in MacPro

Jared Earle jearle at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 02:15:21 PDT 2008


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Scott Anguish <scott at cocoadoc.com> wrote:
> I thought Google proved that there was no significant difference in
> reliability between server/non server grade products

More than anything else, Google proved that redundancy trumps
everything. They also demonstrated that no matter what drive it is, if
you hammer it constantly for years, it'll last the same, or longer,
than if you mollycoddle it.

http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf

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