thebeephaha
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Not looking to buy, my Raptors are fast enough for me but I am just curious to see how 15k SAS is holding up compared to solid state drives.
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They go a bit faster if you're able to dual-port them, as they can communicate over 2 channels for dual read/write. SATA is only 1 channel via half duplex, SAS is 2 channels full duplex.
Hey Ocki, what's the deal w/SSDs formatting issues when they reach capacity...or something along those lines? MaxPC has an article (past article) speaking of the pitfalls of SSD's, though they praise them more than anything. If you're not familiar of the issue above, do you have any impressions, comments both pros/cons on these drives.
I ask because I considered intels latest, not the SLC extreme but the MLC, cheaper version for my OS drive. I currently have a raptor sure but lets pretend money wasn't an issue (and Intels extreme wasn't available).
So one of these (which I own)
It has dual ports. So just use this with my two Savvios and just for each drive use both connectors?
Also I just updated my Perc 5 with the latest LSI firmware and drivers so in theory it should work?
BTW thanks everyone for all this useful information!
AFAIK the supermicro 1-in-4 only supports single port, since it has only 1 SFF connector on it for 4 ports total. The 2-in-8 supports dual port since it has dual expanders on it, but it doesn't have the tab indentations in the middle so it probably won't fit in most people's cases with the metal tabs.