Just Note (Score 2)

Like NASA the US Military does not jump on the latest and greatest technology for everything and for good reason. Some things they do but not all and not the most critical systems. The older technology has been tried and proven over time which makes it more trustworthy than the 15-year old's Alienwarez Octal Core "gaming" PC down the street. When you are flying your 2-billion dollar bomber aircraft over Baghdad and you don't want it to fall from the sky due to a floating point error that had never been seen because the processor is a year old and engineers rushed it to the production line. When you only have one rocket sending a single rover to Mars and the entire space program's life expectancy is hinging on the success, or failure, of this mission, you don't need a hardware failure of the SATA array because a small amount of cosmic radiation has an adverse effect on this one little chip unique to the controller.