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...re. > why? what is the difference between the silicon from a HBA card and the same silicon > on motherboard? I'm sure he's referring to what is essentially lane sharing. A SAS expander in many ways is like an ethernet switch. You have 8 lanes coming off your SAS3008, 4 each in the SFF8087 connector or 8 individual SATA like sockets on the motherboard. You can plug any number of these into a host port on a SAS expander and you then have n*6Gbit of bandwidth to the expander from the host. Then you plug targets and/or additional expanders into the downstream ports. Everything on...

On 08/30/2015 12:02 PM, Mike Mohr wrote: > In my experience the mass market HBAs and RAID cards typically do support > only 8 or 16 drives. For the internal variety in a standard rack-mount > server you'll usually see either 2 or 4 iPass cables (each of which support > 4 drives) connected to the backplane. The marketing material you've > referenced has a white lie in it:

Dear all Sorry if it''s kind of off-topic for the list but after talking to lots of vendors I''m running out of ideas... We are looking for JBOD systems which (1) hold 20+ 3.3" SATA drives (2) are rack mountable (3) have all the nive hot-swap stuff (4) allow 2 hosts to connect via SAS (4+ lines per host) and see all available drives as disks, no RAID volume. In a

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tim <tim at tcsac.net> wrote: > Perfect. Which means good ol'' supermicro would come through :) WOHOO! > > AOC-USAS-L8i > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm Is this card new? I''m not finding it at the usual places like Newegg, etc. It looks like the LSI SAS3081E-R, but probably at 1/2 the