ATA and newer SATA drives are not built to last as long as: a.
RAID arrays b. SCSI drives c. 10 GB drives d. None of the above
Were you correct? The correct answer is: b.SCSI. Dorian says the
SCSI drives built years ago last longer than newer ATA drives.
Serial ATA (the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA)
is a relatively new standard for connecting hard drives to
computer systems. As its name implies, SATA is based on serial
signaling technology, unlike current IDE hard drives that use
parallel signaling. There's pretty much no difference in
interfaces or bandwidth between any of the SCSI or ATA scenarios
as both use DMA to transfer data to and from the CPU. Serial ATA
is reaching the speeds of Ultra SCSI, and every format except
the older parallel ATA are hot pluggable, with both serial ATA
and SCSI supporting both internal and external formats. Most of
us are working with SCSI, or at least SCSI commands. Most
servers may use a SCSI bus, which runs SCSI commands from the
operating system to the di