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Date:      Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:59:15 +0200
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4EA05363.5010808@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <9B27B4D4-69C8-482A-A918-F77FD03614E3@mac.com>
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On 10/20/11 6:52 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:57 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>> Also, what do they mean by "SAS 6Gbps External Controller" ?
> 
> SAS is "serial attached SCSI"; it permits multipath connections to devices and thus is more similar to fibre channel HBAs than SATA, although some SAS controllers will also work with normal SATA drives.
> 
> Regards,

I know what SAS stands for.

My question was, what do they mean by *external* controller ?

Do you get to provide your own ?



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