What specs are you supposed to look for in a motherboard to determine if it has SAS compatibility and SAS software RAID compatibility built into it?
I'm looking under the details of this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128510
And under store devices it shows:
SATA 6Gb/s
6 x SATA 6Gb/s
SATA RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD
Can SAS hard drives go plug into the SATA ports? Do I need a separate hardware RAID controller or does the motherboard support SAS RAID?
Best Answer
SATA controllers don't support SAS devices.
SAS controllers often do support SATA devices.
So far as I understand things.
So no, you need a separate SAS RAID controller (or use plain SAS controller + software RAID - usually not recommended)
See TomsHardware