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...
I was looking at this page and was surprised not to see SAS drives in the list:
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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...
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