The SAS5/ir is a junk controller anyway. I doubt you'll get much of a speed increase by switching to SAS drives
Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 6:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers Called Dell. The official response is that on the SAS controllers mixing SATA and SAS isn't supported. It will work with the PERC controllers but isn't recommended. So i have to image the data off and replace the drives, then image the data back on. Hmmmm From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 28 August 2009 09:45 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers SATA and SAS use different command sets, which is why I don't think you can mix/match. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers Pooo. I thought that it would work but you wouldnt get the speed benefits until both disks were sas. Hmmmm From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 28 August 2009 09:25 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers I believe you can only have SATA or SAS disks attached, not a mix. Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell SAS controllers Chaps, Should any Dell HD controller labelled as SAS be able to take SAS or SATA disks? Particularly we have a SAS 5/ir controller that has SATA disks in it and we want to replace them, one at a time, with SAS disks (one at a time so that the raid can resync each time). Anyone know if that should work? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
