Personally I rarely use SATA drives in servers....
From my experience SATA drive require many times the amount of time to inilailize then SAS drives. Eg for a 136 Gig SAS array, SAS takes under 5-15 minutes, same size in SATA might take a couple hours. 12 hours for 40% could be possible.
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Personally I rarely use SATA drives in servers....
From my experience SATA drive require many times the amount of time to inilailize then SAS drives. Eg for a 136 Gig SAS array, SAS takes under 5-15 minutes, same size in SATA might take a couple hours. 12 hours for 40% could be possible.