Jeff Garzik wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
SATA port multipliers (think, "hub") permit multiple drives
to be active simultaneously.
Quite true, although the host controller could artificially limit this,
giving the user a mistaken impression of their port multiplier being
limited to one-command-per-N-drives.
Interesting. I was basing my comments on what may well be a vested
interest slanted paper - see the sidebar on page 2.
http://www.xtore.com/Downloads/WhitePapers/SAS_SATAValue%20Whitepaper_final.pdf
For the modest extra cost of a non-RAID SAS HBA and JBOD enclosure with
SATA drives, over a port multiplied setup, there would seem to be some
advantages.
Or have I been taken in by the hype... :)
Regards,
Richard
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