On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:44 PM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote: > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > > Anyone got any real world info they can share? I need 3.5" SATA II at > least > > 12 drives behind SAS, > > I am not concerned about space and could use multiple 1u chassis if I had > > to. > > What about this? > > http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13045_na/13045_na.html > > The MSA2000sa is a 2U direct attach, external shared storage > solution designed for small to medium size deployments or > remote locations. It comes in two models - a basic single > controller model for low initial cost with the ability to > upgrade later; and a model with dual controllers standard > for maximum performance. This solution offers a SAS host > nterface to accommodate twelve 3.5 inch enterprise class > SAS drives and archival-class SATA drives. Additional > capacity can easily be added when needed by attaching up > to three MSA2000 12 bay drive enclosures. Maximum raw > capacity ranges from 3.6TB SAS or 12TB SATA in the base > cabinet, to over 14.4TB SAS or 48TB SATA with the addition > of the maximum number of drive enclosures. > > This page says it supports SATA II > > http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/msa_diskarrays/san_arrays/index.html > > nate > > _______________________________________________ > Sorry for hi-jacking this thread, but it's very interesting. What's the difference, apart from the speed & price between SAS & SATAII? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080902/0d1a6c7c/attachment-0005.html>