Serial Attached SCSI, or SAS, is a storage attachment interface most often used on high-end equipment such as servers, and which is capable of transferring data at up to 12 Gbit/second on the bus.
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Can I connect a SATA disk on a SAS connector on the motherboard?
I have a motherboard with a lot of SAS connectors. The motherboard manual specifies that:
these connectors are for the SAS signal cables for SAS hard disk drives that allows up to 6Gb/s of data transfer rate.
Can I connect SATA drives to SAS…
Arseni Mourzenko
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How to use a SAS drive as an external hard disk?
I am not a server guy. I have few external hard disks lying around. Googling around I found those are SAS drives. I want to convert it into an external hard drive for personal use (I'm planning to connect it to the router that has USB 3.0 ). How to…
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What kind of HDD connectors are this?
What kind of connector is this?
I have no physical access to it. This picture was sent to me by a friend who is a consultant for the owner of the disk. It looks like a SAS or SATA connector but only relatively.
Conjectures:
It's an HDD (we're not…
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Mixing SATA and SAS drives on same controller
I have a desktop at home with both SAS and SATA ports. (The SAS ports are supplied by a 3ware 9750 card). Currently I have 5 SATA drives connected to these. One small SSD to boot from and four larger drives to hold data.
I now want to add a SAS…
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How to add User Defined Language XML File to Notepad++
I have a custom XML style file for SAS, from a list of User Defined Language Files in Notepad++ available here :
http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/User_Defined_Languages#How_To_Create_or_Modify_User-Defined_Languages
The file…
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How do I connect a SAS3 drive to a SAS2-capable motherboard that only has SATA-style ports?
I have purchased two items that I want to mate:
A SuperMicro motherboard: X10SL7-F
A Seagate Enterprise SAS drive: ST6000NM0034
The motherboard seems to be somewhat unique in that it has eight (8) SAS/SATA connectors connected to an LSI 2308 SAS…
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Why SAS SSDs are better than SATA SSDs? Or...not really?
I read a lot about the differences between Serial ATA, Serial-Attached SCSI and Near-Line SAS.
I understood that SATA drives are mainly used in client computers, enterprise archive storage arrays, tiered storage, etc. and SAS drives are used in…
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Is it possible to run a program through FTP prompt?
I'm relatively new to Unix or shell scripting (a total novice to speak the truth), here is the deal: I have BI software that runs on a remote UNIX server.
Through SAS client on Windows i run some analytic and create some flat files that need to be…
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How to get an SAS LTO-4 drive to work on a normal PC?
I got a cheap Tandberg LTO-4 tape drive and I would like to use it on my normal, Windows 10/Ubuntu PC for data backups. I tried a SAS SFF-8482 to SATA adapter, but later found out, that this only works with a SATA Motherboard. I'm using this one…
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How to connect a SAS drive to a notebook?
I haven't found any SAS to USB adaptors. How do I connect a SAS drive to my computer's USB port? No eSATA port is available on the system.
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How do I interpret SMART data for SAS disks?
I am in the process of replacing some failing SATA disks with new SAS disks. The raid array that one of the failing disks is part of is in the process of resilvering. As that progresses, I can see the write error correction rate on the new disk…
user4491
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Determining if motherboard has SAS compatibility and SAS software RAID compatibility?
What specs are you supposed to look for in a motherboard to determine if it has SAS compatibility and SAS software RAID compatibility built into it?
I'm looking under the details of…
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Vim color schemes and SAS programs
I have a problem that when I open SAS programs (.sas files) in Vim, the colors look very ugly (a mix of white and black background, etc.).
Example here: This is how vim looks when I open a SAS file (setf=sas)
My colorscheme is koehler.
I have…
Thomas
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LSI SAS 2308 MPT2SAS Linux Read/Write performance
LSI SAS 2308-8e (6Gb/s per Lane) PCIe 3.0 card. Average Read/Write Raw performance for 4 SSDs is very low, around 430 MB/s (Expected 2 GB/s).I have an Intel Core i3 with quad cores and 4 GB RAM.
xdd.linux -op write -targets 4 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc…
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Can Windows and SAS be installed inside virtual box of Ubuntu and on an external USB hard drive?
Does it work if Windows is installed inside virtual box of Ubuntu and on an external USB hard drive?
My laptop is Lenovo T400. I am using Ubuntu 12.04, and would like to install SAS 9.3 (its system requirement is here). But I can't find or purchase…
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