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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
Subject: Re: SCSI vs SATA
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:19:04PM -0400, Ron wrote:
>Both statements are the literal truth.

Repeating something over and over again doesn't make it truth. The OP 
asked for statistical evidence (presumably real-world field evidence) to 
support that assertion. Thus far, all the publicly available evidence 
does not show a significant difference between SATA and SCSI reliability 
in the field.

Mike Stone