by kratak » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:52 pm
serial ATA is best for simple, single-disk servers and desktop and workstation configurations that can benefit from disk-striping setups, such as multimedia editing stations. At this point, despite the lower price, it's really not suited for use in enterprise-class servers.
Spend your money on SCSI and rest easy. SATA does make an appealing alternative to low-end (i.e., desktop) SCSI setups, which have been more or less eclipsed by ATA/IDE as a whole for some time now and should flourish nicely there.
So you have to ask yourself what would be fit for purpose?