[geeks] SATA on SPARC

[Micah R Ledbetter]

On 9/14/2006, "Charles Shannon Hendrix" <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 @ 23:27 -0500, Bill Bradford said:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:34:16PM -0400, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
>> > The T1000 is available with either SAS or SATA drives. I think most
>> > (all?) SAS controllers transparently support SATA drives, but I'm not
>> > sure what you need to do to make it go.
>>
>> All of the systems they released today use SAS drives as well.
>
>What are the limitations to using SATA drives on SAS controllers?
>
>Put another way, outside of the drives possibly being slower, what do
>you lose?
>
>NOTE: The assumption is that you buy decent SATA drives not junk.  I'm
>not talking about things like the quality of consumer-level drives that
>focus on size.

AFAIK, SATA is backwards compatible with SAS. You get everything that
SATA gives you, and none of the extra SAS advantages on top of that.