[Discuss] SAS drives

[feenberg at nber.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

>> From: Dan Ritter [mailto:dsr at tao.merseine.nu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:35 AM
>>
>> Can you describe the connector? And is it on the drives, or on a
>> backplane?
>
> I suppose I'll have to look again.  Perhaps it was as simple as this:
> http://www.scsita.org/serial-storage-wire/images/it24fig1.jpg
>
> I had the belief, by looking at it, that it was approx the same size &
> number of pins as the normal sata connection, but did not look like it was
> physically compatible with a sata connection.  I guess I'll have to verify.
>

Note the plastic "bridge" between the signal and power connections on the 
SAS drive, compared to the open space between the connectors on the SATA 
device. The SATA cable I have won't fit the SAS connector because of that, 
even though the electrical pads look exactly the same.

Daniel Feenberg
NBER