If you check out the table on Page 6 of The PERC technical guidebook it says that the H700 supports SAS and SATA drives, but the H800 supports SAS only. I've also seen that mentioned in a couple of other places too.
I've got a call in with our Dell storage guy, since I'm looking to spec up a couple of servers at work with a mix of SAS and SATA, and that's a deal killer for me.
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Interesting, thanks for the link, I haven't gone through that yet... I wonder what happens if I order an H800 w/Sata drives... will they cancel or ship it and not support it, even though it works...
That would be a deal breaker, since we're looking at a dell server w/ SATA drives... We may just go with the LSI controller in a dell server... let us know what you find, because i proposed a dell r310 w/an h800 or sas 6 hba connected to a hp sas expander or norco ds-24e as a storage solution... if the dell card doesn't work, ill have to price out the lsi or areca controller...