Am 07.11.2008 um 23:35 schrieb nate:
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.
There are also SATA drives with FC-interfaces.... "FATA"
Used in SANs, mainly.
Take a look at Promise's VtrakJ610-series for cheap 16-bay JBOD array with SAS-connection to the server. Apple re-badges them...
Rainer