Does anyone know of good sas controller that can support any sata drive and not just a select few?
why get a sas controller if you intend to use sata drives?
>>51820113
What are you talking about? A SAS controller is precisely for SATA drives.
LSI stuff usually doesn't care.
I've been using LSI controllers like LSI SAS1068 for consumer SATA drives for ages.
>>51820175
no, a sas controller is for sas drives, it's a different protocol
the only reason it's a similar connector is because it's designed to be backwards compatible with sata drives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_attached_SCSI
>>51820225
SAS controllers can use SATA drives you silly git.
Though SATA controllers cannot use SAS drives.
>>51820247
i literally just said that
>>51820264
Wrong again.
>>51820212
Thank you I will take a look at these. I bought a Adaptec controller, it seems the controller works fine but none of my drives are detected. My drives are not on the "offically supported" list.
>>51820057
Just buy a $50-$80 sata controller that supports port replication. Are you planning to use the controller for high access speeds or just so you can attach more storage? If the latter, use the multiplier method.
Unless you're a data center I can't really see the need for an expensive $300+ sata/RAID controller
AOC-SAS2LP-MV8
>>51820269
> it's designed to be backwards compatible with sata drives
Are you illiterate?
>>51820269
>>51820247
>>51820175
You're a moron