Re: Question regarding SAS controllers.

[Grant Grundler]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do any SAS controllers exist that are not RAID?
>
> Or to put it another way, if one wants to use SAS disks for example and NOT
> export them as JBOD or use them as RAID, is there a normal controller?

Besides mptsas, there is mvsas (Marvell 6480 chip , IIRC).

> Back in the days of regular SCSI you had SCSI controllers and SCSI raid
> controllers, when searching for SAS controllers now, all that comes up is
> hundreds of SAS-Raid controllers.

Because lots of the windows server users demand HW RAID?
And it's a "value add"; vendors can charge more money for the RAID cards.

grant
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