Well I have run scsis on servers for many years...and have only had one fail...although it was originally setup by another company and wasnt working properly when I started. diskread\write errors..and the drive would just drop offline...I thought it was a setup issue as there were many other issues with the server setup overall. Was under warranty and seagate replaced it when I couldnt low level format...

I have a stacks of failed IDEs....mostly maxtors...or very old (7+ years) seagates

When upgrading\repairing or reinstalling a machine....and it has a maxtor...

I remove it and put it on the stack.


I am very new to the SATA...so again thank you for your opinions

Unhappy

maybe overkill for basic file sharing....but there are databases, exchange server , sharepoint and windows virtual memory etc that thrash the drives a fair bit...

So maybe under a little more stress...with all those apps...


MLF