[geeks] SATA on SPARC

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 @ 15:51 -0600, Micah R Ledbetter said:

> On 9/14/2006, "Charles Shannon Hendrix" <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> AFAIK, SATA is backwards compatible with SAS. You get everything that
> SATA gives you, and none of the extra SAS advantages on top of that.

Then you mean SAS is backward compatible with SATA.

The question remains, what do you lose?


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