Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (

I suggest you read this on the difference between enterprise/SCSI and
desktop/IDE drives:
http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf
 

This is exactly the kind of vendor propaganda I was talking about
and it proves my point quite well : that there's nothing specific relating
to reliability that is different between SCSI and SATA drives cited in that paper.
It does have a bunch of FUD such as 'oh yeah we do a lot more
drive characterization during manufacturing'.