[geeks] SATA on SPARC

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 @ 23:27 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:34:16PM -0400, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> > The T1000 is available with either SAS or SATA drives. I think most
> > (all?) SAS controllers transparently support SATA drives, but I'm not
> > sure what you need to do to make it go.
> 
> All of the systems they released today use SAS drives as well.

What are the limitations to using SATA drives on SAS controllers?

Put another way, outside of the drives possibly being slower, what do
you lose?

NOTE: The assumption is that you buy decent SATA drives not junk.  I'm
not talking about things like the quality of consumer-level drives that
focus on size.

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