Don't buy those drives. That's unrelated to whether you use hardware or software RAID.
Sorry that is an extremely misleading statement. SATA RAID is perfectly acceptable if you have a hardware raid controller with a battery backup controller.
And dollar for dollar, SCSI will NOT be faster nor have the hard drive capacity that you will get with SATA.
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