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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Storage => Topic started by: devils_advisor on May 12, 2015, 12:19:28 PM

Title: SAS
Post by: devils_advisor on May 12, 2015, 12:19:28 PM

is there a sas controller for powermacs available ?

Title: Re: SAS
Post by: supernova777 on May 12, 2015, 10:08:32 PM

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/SAS-HDD-TO-SATA-SAS-Serial-Attached-SCSI-Hot-Swap-Backplane-Adapter-/281425463209?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item418643c7a9

perhaps this is relevant?

Title: Re: SAS
Post by: devils_advisor on May 13, 2015, 04:44:17 AM

interesting but i would need a card for my xserve (g4) with driver if needed.

Title: Re: SAS
Post by: supernova777 on May 14, 2015, 04:20:40 PM

if u want to use SAS hardware the best way to do this would be to use
a pc motherboard running nas4free / freenas from a 8gb usb stick. this will give u compatibility with new macs via SMB
and old macs via netatalk AFP

and u can get the ultimate disk speed by using a motherboard that supports SATA3 (6GBps) speeds
or a SAS controller via PCI-express

this will show u the real potential of gigabit ethernet! when connecting to this system over appletalk chooser from mac os 9