DISQUS

the storage anarchist · 2 years ago

You claim that "SATA in the enterprise has been controversial", but in reality, SATA drives have been being used in many enterprises for more than 2 years. They've just been used in "mid-tier" storage arrays like CLARiiON (the first to support SATA drives, I beleive).

And while SATA isn't necessarily displacing faster enterprise-class disk drives, the slow/fat/cheap drives do allow customers to more cost-effectively store certain classes of data - like the 7 years of emails and IM messages that many are required to maintain for compliance, or nearline backups (for fast recovery).

Any controversy over SATA drives in Enterprise Arrays appears to be fueled by the vendors who don't offer native support for SATA in their enterprise storage products. But the fact is that customers are already adopting and using SATA storage within their enterprise data centers.