On 2010-05-25 19:23, Jefferson Ogata wrote: > On 2010-05-25 16:48, Wiley Sanders wrote: >> This is another basic quick presales question that sales doesn't seem to >> be able to answer: The specs for the H700 say it has "4x2" SAS ports. >> What exactly does "4x2" mean? As far as I can tell the controller has >> two channels, period. > > I believe it means two four-lane channels (12 Gb/s each). But I don't > have any H700s so I'm not certain. That's how the PERC 6s are tho.
BTW, I would (and do) avoid the H* controllers until Dell makes good on its pledge to remove the crippleware firmware features that prevent it from interoperating with non-Dell drives. AFAIK new firmware addressing this hasn't yet been released. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
