Two 6Gb sata ports to one 12Gb sas drive ?

[honegod]

Is plugging a sas drive into 2 motherboard sata III ports a normal "no sweat" thing to do, or is it another impossibly dumb idea that took over my brain ?

 

[BlueLineSwinger]

While SAS HBAs will typically work with SATA drives, I don't know of any SATA HBAs that will accept SAS drives.

Even if the SAS drive could fall back to SATA (I'm not aware of any that do), no SATA HBA is going to properly handle redundant connections to the drive.

 

[Blue Fox]

SAS drives do not work with SATA at all.

 

[honegod]

no SATA HBA is going to properly handle redundant connections to the drive.

What is HBA ?

How about a board that converts 1 drive output into a raid 0 pair ?

"SAS drives do not work with SATA at all."

They both are digital, could not the flavor of SAS be converted to SATA, digitally ?

I am NOT trolling, I don't understand and I want to.

 

[drescherjm]

could not the flavor of SAS be converted to SATA, digitally ?

Likely not. You would need some hardware to do so. No one will make this hardware because it would not be cost effective.

What is HBA ?

Host Bus Adapter.

 

[honegod]

Thanks !

Da, it looks like it is possible but it would take WAAAAY too much work to get something that would get stomped all over by SSD.

I now know enough to see that this notion got to the edge of the envelope, and jumped off