Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > While SATA and SAS are *supposed* to be able to be mixed freely, my > vendor has warned me that it doesn't always work out that well. They > have seen compatibility issues using SATA drives on SAS controllers. > So for applications where you want/need a SAS controller but still > need big capacity, these are the drives they recommend. What I've seen in multiple vendors configuration guidelines is that a given SAS controller and SAS/SATA chassis will support SATA *or* SAS, but not both at once on the same SAS multiplexor.