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Mushroom · Nov 14, 2006, 03:31 PM // 15:31

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Originally Posted by MegaMouse

As I said the SATA interface and the SAS interface are not compatible and they are out of the price range that most of us can even think about affording.

Not quite true.

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SATA is simply a subset of the SAS standard. With a SAS controller, you can run both SAS an SATA drives. However, you can't mix and match them in a RAID array. You can combine both of them in a machine, but not on the same RAID array. I have seen people who use a 10k SATA for a boot drive, then an array of 15k SAS drives for high-speed redundent storage (database server for example).

However, you can't run SAS on a SATA array.

And be careful, because prices and standards change constantly. Ever since the 15K SAS drives came out, the price of 10k SAS drives has dropped, and they only run about 10-15% more then a 10k SATA drive. And when the 20k comes out next year, expect 10K SAS to be about the same price as a 10K SATA, and the 15K SAS to drop to where the current 10K rests.