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Continuing my overview of the specialized hard drive market, we move on to the world of enterprise hard disk drives. These are performance monsters, with nearly all falling above the 10,000 RPM line that defines “exotic” in the desktop space. They also have a wide va
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1 year ago
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.