[Gllug] Server supplier for Linux mail server

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:21:03AM +0100, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 17:27 +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> 
> > We're using SATA drives, although with the number of failures we've
> > had, I'd be sorely tempted to go for SCSI were I to build another one.
> > Maybe it's an urban myth that SCSI drives are more reliable (or even,
> > different at all), but it seems to be the case in my experence. YMMV.
> 
> I've always felt that the initial failure rate on IDE/SATA drives was
> very high. SCSI seems to me to be better - haven't yet used enough SAS
> drives to have a view, but I'd expect the to be decent.

Have you tried something like these?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=158&language=en

We're using these in the aforementioned server.

Rich.

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