I must admit I was looking for the SAS drives when playing around with the configuarator too, just never thought to mention it as I thought I was just too picky!
I must admit I was looking for the SAS drives when playing around with the configuarator too, just never thought to mention it as I thought I was just too picky!
eheh me too but we are all too picky otherwise we wouldn't be here
I must admit I was looking for the SAS drives when playing around with the configuarator too, just never thought to mention it as I thought I was just too picky!
What the hell are SAS drives??
I have this vision of an hdd wearing a balaclava n gas mask!
SAS is basically a new generation of the SCSI interface - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), faster (and I dare say, a slightly more standarised connector than the craziness of previous SCSI incarnations - just come to my workplace for crazy SCSI connectors).
Down the SAS route, you could get a 15,400 rpm hard drive (I think they cost about 450 quid for 150GB or similar pricing schemes). It still uses SCSI protocols for commands despite being able to plug in a SATA drive into a SAS port.
SAS controllers can take SATA drives, but not the other way round.
That's ok. I just placed 1 because the list is becoming quite extensive and if Vadim were to increse it with 1 or 2 SAS models it might become too big... but it is a matter of choice.
not anymore that's why I was raising this question. If people like myself and Fruim (and most of the rest) like speedy computers... why even look at raptors
One RAID card and 2 or 3 of these. The noise levels will be at a par with the raptor or higher but you can also get an enclosure.... and Voila... a stupidly fast PC with stupidly fast drives. I would only change tht for new SATA SSDs at a decent price
