Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Alan Somers
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Mikhail T. wrote: > My server has 8 "hot-plug" slots, that can accept both SATA and SAS drives. > SATA ones tend to be cheaper for the same features (like cache-sizes), what > am I getting for the extra money spent on SAS? > > Asking specifically about the protoco

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-10 Thread Alan Somers
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Ben RUBSON wrote: >> On 09 Aug 2017, at 17:59, Alan Somers wrote: >> >> 3) SAS drives have a lot of fancy features that you may not need or >> care about. For example, (...) their error >> reporting capabilities are more sophi