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    SAS SSD - Bang for buck?

    I'm amazed you're required to use SAS. I thought part of the point of SAS was that it was backwards compatible. I mean you'd lose the benefits (better error encoding features, etc), but it should function from what I read. I should say I have no experience with those devices you list, and am...
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    SAS/Enterprise not "Top Picks FreeNAS Hard Drives"?

    I was looking at this page and was surprised not to see SAS drives in the list: Top Picks for FreeNAS Hard Drives Yes, 7200 rpm drives will generate more heat, but I'm surprised that for ZFS the reliability improvements that SAS drives seem to include aren't important if ECC RAM is so...