Le Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:19:26 +0100 vous écriviez: > Usually SATA drives are pogrammed to do a large number of firmware > driven retries in case of data errors, hanging the IO subsystem, This is only the case for Desktop SATA drives. More expensive "enterprise" SATA drives (Seagate ES or ES2 series, Hitachi Ultrastar, etc) behave like SAS drives. Desktop SATA drives also lack the logic to manage properly vibrations happening in large arrays, which can totally kill performance. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs