[TriLUG] New system configuration thoughts

[Magnus]

Kevin Jones wrote:
> I spoke to a friend of mine who works in a large datacenter and asked
> him their failure rates with SCSI vs. SATA and he (well, his boss
> actually) said they had one SATA SAN that lost an average of 4 to 5
> times as many drives as their SCSI SANs. They are replacing almost
> one a month on average he said. That seems excessive, but he
> mentioned that they were supposedly very high tolerance SATA disks.

Something sounds very fishy there.

I would question the enclosure, the rack its in, quality of power or the 
power supply, or perhaps physical abuse/trauma that happened during 
installation.  Something is not right with that failure rate.