Hmm... SATA Really *IS* Slower than Fibre Channel

Friday 28 December 2007 at 1:20 pm I said in an earlier post that we were using CentOS5 with a Sun Storedge 3511 SATA Array to serve up NFSv4 home directories to Linux clients and SAMBA home directories to Windows users. In benchmarks this setup proved faster. But the stuff hit the fan when the quarter started and the users started pounding on it... (more)