sas question

pinky1

pinky1

pinky1

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i was wondering fir those who have played with sas drives, do sata and sas share the same connector ?

the reason i ask is that i am in love with those new 15000rpm 2.5's but their only sas and i would love to get a few and put em in this:

(the link is the manufatures website not a competitor)
http://www.rancho.com/Products.aspx?ID=52&Model=MiniSTOR 2&CatID=6

of course i would also get a pci-e sas raid card.

can u imagine what the performance of a raid 5 array would be. ??
 
Performance? Fast! Extremely fast in fact.

I've not had a play about but suffice to say if I ever come across an obscene pile of money I'll be having some.

The enclosure linked is for 2.5" SATA drives, not SAS so the 15K drives won't work in it. SATA drives can be connected to a SAS controller but not the other way round so you'll need to find a SAS equivalent of the enclosure.

With a decent RAID card the performance should be good, there aren't that many around but I've seen a few 4 disk RAID0 setups that are shifting almost 400Mb/s across the bulk of the array :eek:
 
sas is very fast great seek times not to sure why you want the 2.5" have a slightly better seek time than the 3.5" i have. not sure about sustained throughput though. let me know if you want me to run any tests on them and yes sas controlers are compatible with sata drives
 
I'm also interested to know what connector does SAS drives use?

I understand that SAS supports SATA drives. But i'm wondering what type of connectors do they use? for SATA and SAS SCSI drives.
 
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