Out of curiosity, do you claim that sata drives won't work with this backplane ? any particular reason why ?This is very nice, as long as you are planing to use sas drives not sata.
Well with that comment I will comment back and say you provided no evidence of any issues running SATA drives in a SAS enclosure so just because you read about a car accident somewhere under some random conditions doesn't mean we should all be too scared to drive if we value our lives. And yes, that's meant to be sarcastic just like your comment.Honestly I don't have enough experience with sas expanders to say conclusively one way or another if there is an issue. I can find the link , it was on this forum but I can't find it. The blog explains why.
When you say "I never had problem" I assume you are saying you find out just trying, and if that's the case it is definitely not good enough for the people who really value their data. Like saying "my uncle keep the barbeque propane bottle next the fireplace and never had a problem" it dont mean it's ok then is it ?
For me reliability is the most important factor. I like to make things work from the first time till end of time so to speak or set it and forget it.
Well with that comment I will comment back and say you provided no evidence of any issues running SATA drives in a SAS enclosure so just because you read about a car accident somewhere under some random conditions doesn't mean we should all be too scared to drive if we value our lives. And yes, that's meant to be sarcastic just like your comment.
Now if you can provide data to back up your claim I'll admit I'm wrong. And I don't mean from some random forum or blog post from a random individual that could have had bad cables, a faulty backplane, a craptastic SAS card.. As far as I have ever known, SAS is backward compatible with SATA but not the other way around.
Till then I will side with the millions of other SATA hard drives running in a SAS environment without issue.
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The gripe is with the expander backplaneAnyway always the option just to use direct connect. HBA are not that expensive compared to the expander anyway. Since most people want JBOD for ZFS. Sure and expander is good for hardware RAID.
Backplane being the expander in this case.The gripe is with the expander backplane
See SATA drives behind expander still a no-go? for another recent discussion around this