[Gllug] SATA - new drives and old BIOSes not compatible?

[Christian Smith]

Russell Howe uttered:

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:39:33PM +0000, Christian Smith wrote:
>> SATA connectors are designed to be hot-pluggable, so this is a deliberate
>> design decision.
>
> Yes, but internal SATA connectors are only rated for a few tens of
> plug/unplug cycles, or so I've been told.
>
> No, I don't have any citations for that random factoid, sorry :)


No problem. Even the most unreliable drives should be replaced < 10 times 
for the life of a machine. In a 5 disk RAID 5 array, would you really 
expect 50 seperate disk failures?

Christian


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