I'm thinking about buying this motherboard here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157327
http://whatswithjeff.com/asrock-x79-extreme11-lga2011-motherboard/
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X79%20Extreme11/
http://www.servethehome.com/asrock-x79-extreme11-lsi-sas2308-onboard-sassata/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQeVjgyFdEM&list=UUK2t9Vtqq7AYKXCShevGcmA&index=2&feature=plcp
As a storage junky one of the many things I find very intriguing about this motherboard is it's 14 Sata/SAS ports and the 8 port LSI raid.
The onboard LSI raid controller has the same LSI controller chip found in mid-range LSI PCIe raid cards costing around $350 and can use either Sata or SAS hard drives.
My Intention is to build a 16TB - 8 drive redundant raid array on the 8 LSI ports. My question is which is better Sata or SAS? And why?
I have spent quite a few hours on Google and have come up short of any intelligent answers.
I get answers like: "A 15000 RPM SAS drive is faster than a 7200 rpm Sata drive."
DUH!
or
"SAS drives are for enterprise solutions so they are generally of a higher quality."
While this may be true there are many similarly priced/specced quality Sata enterprise drives so, that point is useless as well.
Some say SAS has better data integrity. Is this true? Better than a Sata enterprise solution made for raid? And if so why?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157327
http://whatswithjeff.com/asrock-x79-extreme11-lga2011-motherboard/
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/X79%20Extreme11/
http://www.servethehome.com/asrock-x79-extreme11-lsi-sas2308-onboard-sassata/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQeVjgyFdEM&list=UUK2t9Vtqq7AYKXCShevGcmA&index=2&feature=plcp
As a storage junky one of the many things I find very intriguing about this motherboard is it's 14 Sata/SAS ports and the 8 port LSI raid.
The onboard LSI raid controller has the same LSI controller chip found in mid-range LSI PCIe raid cards costing around $350 and can use either Sata or SAS hard drives.
My Intention is to build a 16TB - 8 drive redundant raid array on the 8 LSI ports. My question is which is better Sata or SAS? And why?
I have spent quite a few hours on Google and have come up short of any intelligent answers.
I get answers like: "A 15000 RPM SAS drive is faster than a 7200 rpm Sata drive."
DUH!
or
"SAS drives are for enterprise solutions so they are generally of a higher quality."
While this may be true there are many similarly priced/specced quality Sata enterprise drives so, that point is useless as well.
Some say SAS has better data integrity. Is this true? Better than a Sata enterprise solution made for raid? And if so why?
