bilbobagginz Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment
wrenchmonkey Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment
bilbobagginz Posted June 11, 2019 Author Share Posted June 11, 2019 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! Quote Link to comment
wrenchmonkey Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 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... Quote Link to comment
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