[NTLUG:Discuss] High end PCIe storage/RAID adapters

[Bryan J. Smith]

"Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes at linuxtx.org> wrote:
> There was also some discussin over the expectation that in
> the next couple of years most SATA hardware will likely be
> SAS+SATA.

In-a-nutshell, host adapters/RAID cards that do SAS can "get
SATA for free."  Going the other way, no, not all SATA
controllers will do SAS.  But most RAID controllers will
already have a "host adapter" like intelligence, so any true
hardware SATA controller will probably also do SAS.

At the device end (e.g., disk, SAS hub, etc...), that's where
the cost is.  So SATA drives will continue to be lower cost
than SAS drives.

> Sadly, I have not seen any out there just yet either.
> I think PCI Express is your best bet at the moment, and
> there are a few options there.

Yep, that's basicaly what I said on PC_Support.



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