SAS Question

I'm fairly certain you need a SCSI controller. SAS disks talk SCSI not ATA. They use the same interface as normal SATA drives though.
 
I know you can us SATA drives on SAS controllers but they can also talk ATA. I don't think SAS drives understand ATA commands.
 
"Maximize sata value with SAS controllers" is one title you may be interested in. http://www.adaptec.com/NR/rdonlyres/B2B7FEA9-F59B-46EB-B676-DD0892653F7C/0/4393_SATAValue_13.pdf

SAS=Serial Attached SCSI is the description for that. You will find this application leaning more towards servers cases. While SAS has been around since 2004 home builders would be less informed since they would be looking at a WD Raptor 10,000rpm drive and miss the annoucement made last fall of Toshiba and Seagate's 15,000rpm SAS drives. http://www.infostor.com/Articles/Ar...n=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=23&ARTICLE_ID=273561
 
No offense PC EYE, but that wasnt even helpful towards my question, lol.

I just found out that you need a SAS controller, and I know what SAS stands for, and I know what the speeds are. And I dont need to know the history of it :P
 
You don't generallly see too many boards coming out with SCSI controllers on them do you? Did you know that there is also SAS RAID controller cards as well?
 
Omega said:
I found SATA/SAS controllers on Newegg ... yada yada...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...Subcategory=410&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=
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I think he might know that there are SAS RAID controllers....but that's just because it comes on every SAS controller ;) and probably every SCSI controller at that :)
You don't generallly see too many boards coming out with SCSI controllers on them do you?
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The very few that there are, are server boards and as such are very expensive.

In any event, any form of SCSI on a home system is a bit silly as Omega found out it's expensive and only gets more expensive the further in you get.
 
PC eye said:
You don't generallly see too many boards coming out with SCSI controllers on them do you? Did you know that there is also SAS RAID controller cards as well?
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Do you even read the posts? I said in my 2nd post that I found SAS controller cards, and that they arent built into motherboards.
 
No offense PC EYE, but that wasnt even helpful towards my question, lol.
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I however do mean to offend

PC Eye can you please stop posting crap that you copy from wikipedia or other google discovered references in the vain attempt to appear like you know what you are talking about.
[-Omega-] knows what SAS is, he doesn't need a definition.

Anyway, i didn't know the answer until i did a few google hits, but it appears cromewell is correct (as always :P) that SAS end devices are interfaced with SCSI commands and hence wont work on ATA
 
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