Answer by Diet_Rich for Any experience with SATA SAS Interposer Cards?
Yeah, I only have experience over the last few months with this, but at least the SATA interposers I'm using have issues. Can't hot-swap any more. I've lost drives because of this. It is one more point...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeremy for Any experience with SATA SAS Interposer Cards?
So of course there is some trade-off, but I'm not sure the current answers provide any positive use cases. Lets say the biggest benefit of the interposer is the multi-path, which is removing a fairly...
View ArticleAnswer by Rakesh for Any experience with SATA SAS Interposer Cards?
Using interposer does give you a so called native SAS experience to the drive but the trade off of that being the error handling and recovery mechanism which is also delegated to these interposer...
View ArticleAnswer by Coré for Any experience with SATA SAS Interposer Cards?
I think the question is already answered but I'm going to add something else, for my experience, even is a device that usually doesn't fails, is a new point of failure, imaging a situation where you...
View ArticleAnswer by Robin Gill for Any experience with SATA SAS Interposer Cards?
There is one main reason I would use them - if I was maxing SATA and SAS drives on the same backplane. As they use different signalling levels, it's not recommended to use both on the same backplane....
View ArticleAnswer by voretaq7 for Any experience with SATA SAS Interposer Cards?
My two cents: If you are concerned about the edge case failures that may occur with SATA hardware (specifically, lousy SATA controllers), spend the money on real SAS disks.These cards do what they say...
View ArticleAny experience with SATA SAS Interposer Cards?
Driven by the current price difference between SATA and SAS disks on one side and the potentially bad behaviour of SATA disks in bigger storage arrays on the other side, I have found so-called...
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