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