[Interest check] low-cost XScale 4 port S-ATA NAS/router

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I know you're a professional storage guy,

You know me then ??????????

but IDE (P-ATA and S-ATA) are so common to run 24/7 these days. 99% of the home users who have a box running 24/7 use IDE and lots of the smaller and mid-size companies heavilly depend on IDE as well. I am aware of the MBTF term and what it means, but I've seen more then my share of (nearly brand-new) SCSI harddisks failures. Especially accounting the 'fact' that SCSI is professional and IDE disks are not...

Yes true but the fun part of this all is you normally can replace the disks under warranty

Anyway, a S-ATA RAID-5 array using 4 disks provides (on a small network) the same performance with much larger capacities for a significant lower price with practically the same data integrity ratio.

But using SCSI as your storage in Raid 5 (or whatever) will result in a much lower serverload then typical PATA or SATA.

Sorry guys but this is more or less off-topic. Im a bit of a storage addict.

Cheers