[CentOS] Re: Hardware RAID Controller -- 3Ware SATA connectors
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17 at duke.edu
Wed May 11 13:23:08 UTC 2005
On Wed, 11 May 2005 at 9:21am, Chris Mauritz wrote
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>
> >3Ware _does_ offer 4-port concentrators that help reduce this issue,
> >at least at the card. It's one of the main reasons they introduce it,
> >and 3Ware continues to be one of the _few_ (only?) vendor that offers
> >a better connector.
> >
>
> You mean the multilane connectors? Yeah, those are sweet. A friend of
> mine has just used those cables with multilane drive cages to make some
> really "fat" 12 drive arrays using Seagate 400gig SATA drives. They
> look a bit like the old high density external SCSI connectors (like the
> old Buslogic/Mylex boards used to have "back in the day").
>
They are, in fact, Infiniband style connectors.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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