> Thing is, even all SATA is not created equal.  Before you decide you can
> put PRIMARY disk on SATA, ask about SUSTAINED throughput rates.
>
> If your data needs to go SOMEWHERE ELSE (like get copied or migrated to
> tape) from the SATA disk, think carefully.   If you're talking a LOT of
> data, think VERY carefully.
>
> I've worked with some SATA disk that drop to as low as 8MB/second after
> you exceed the cache read ahead/flush capacity (and that's on READ I/O,
> not even writes!).
>

Ouch.  I think I can get better than that with an eMachines home computer.
 I hope that wasn't one of the top tier vendor's storage subsystems.  The
old addage of you get what you pay for applies to SATA disk as well.



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