June 11, 20197 yr hi, i finally have some time to set up my unraid box after having all the parts laying around my setup will be based on: xeon E3-1230L cpu supermicro X9SCM-F motherboard IBM M1015 controller RES2SV240 expander SC-4324S SATA/SAS case my questions are: can i use SAS drives with this configuration? will i encounter problems mixing SAS and SATA drives? yours, Bilbo
June 11, 20197 yr I've had no problem with mixing SAS and SATA drives. You can even use SAS connectors on SATA drives (but not the other way around). The only downside is that there's a bug in Unraid that prevents SAS drives from spinning down. If you use SAS drives, make sure you set them to not spin down. Just discovered this issue in my own setup, and disabled the spin down timeout on my SAS drives. Another big benefit is that Surplus/Used SAS drives can often be found WAAAAAAY cheaper than SATA drives.
June 11, 20197 yr Author 35 minutes ago, wrenchmonkey said: I've had no problem with mixing SAS and SATA drives. You can even use SAS connectors on SATA drives (but not the other way around). The only downside is that there's a bug in Unraid that prevents SAS drives from spinning down. If you use SAS drives, make sure you set them to not spin down. Just discovered this issue in my own setup, and disabled the spin down timeout on my SAS drives. Another big benefit is that Surplus/Used SAS drives can often be found WAAAAAAY cheaper than SATA drives. thanks wrenchmonkey do you know if they are going to fix the bug? about the SAS drives being cheaper ---> THAT'S THE POINT!
June 11, 20197 yr No way of knowing if they're GOING to fix the bug, but it's a bug they're aware of, and I assume they would WANT to fix it at some point. Hopefully...
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