Re: Hardware RAID Controller -- 3Ware SATA connectors

[jlb17 at duke.edu (Joshua Baker-LePain)]

On Wed, 11 May 2005 at 9:21am, Chris Mauritz wrote

> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 
> >3Ware _does_ offer 4-port concentrators that help reduce this issue,
> >at least at the card.  It's one of the main reasons they introduce it,
> >and 3Ware continues to be one of the _few_ (only?) vendor that offers
> >a better connector.
> >
> 
> You mean the multilane connectors?  Yeah, those are sweet.  A friend of 
> mine has just used those cables with multilane drive cages to make some 
> really "fat" 12 drive arrays using Seagate 400gig SATA drives.  They 
> look a bit like the old high density external SCSI connectors (like the 
> old Buslogic/Mylex boards used to have "back in the day").
> 
They are, in fact, Infiniband style connectors.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University