"Poor" man's NAS

[Ben Duncan]

The Specs for SAS is that you can attache SATA disks to the controller
(SAS) but not vis versa. Also the specs are very FAST for SAS almost to
the ICON stuff on mainframes ...

Net Llama! wrote:
<SNIP>
> 
> SATA is still a fairly immature technology, especially in Linux.  In terms
> of performance, I'd say its somewhere between PATA & SCSI.  In terms of
> features, its slowly edging towards parity with SCSI, but its not there
> yet, and there's a footnote that different drives have different features
> (and I don't just mean RPMs & capacity), and different SATA controllers
> also have different features.  So when you throw all those variables
> together, you end up with a fairly broad spectrum of performance &
> functionality for SATA.
> 
> And to make things interesting, there's a newcomer to the storage scene,
> SAS (serial attached SCSI).  Where SATA was kinda PATA getting mutated
> into SCSI, SAS is kinda SCSI getting mutated into SATA.
> 

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Ben Duncan   - Business Network Solutions, Inc. 336 Elton Road  Jackson MS, 39212
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