On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 at 2:35pm, nate wrote
Gordon McLellan wrote:
I guess I'm saying, if you interpret the name "Serial Attached Scsi"
literally, then the Seagate ES.2 is not an SAS drive - it is not a
scsi drive with a serial interface. However, if you interpret SAS as
an interface standard, then the interface board determines what the
drive is, more so than its mechanical construction.
SAS and SATA use the same physical interface, the drive mentioned
is most definitely SATA. Largest SAS drive I have heard of
myself is 400GB, same as the max size for FC drives.
No. No it isn't. It's SAS. The platters etc are the same hardware used
in the SATA part, but the interface circuitry is native SAS. Note that
they offer the drive in both SATA and SAS variants.
While SATA and SAS are *supposed* to be able to be mixed freely, my vendor
has warned me that it doesn't always work out that well. They have seen
compatibility issues using SATA drives on SAS controllers. So for
applications where you want/need a SAS controller but still need big
capacity, these are the drives they recommend.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF
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