different sata drives on same min-sas

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Something I'm wondering about, is if you have a SATA III drive connected to a SATA III host adaptor via a mini-sas, and you then connect a SATA II drive going through the same mini-sas, would that slow the SATA III drive's connection speed down to SATA II?
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No it wouldn't because the two drives are not sharing the same cable like the old IDE drives do.
True, they are sharing the same host adapter but data to/from the SATA III drive has a direct route to the host adapter so it can't in any way be bottlenecked by a slower drive.
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No it wouldn't because the two drives are not sharing the same cable like the old IDE drives do.
True, they are sharing the same host adapter but data to/from the SATA III drive has a direct route to the host adapter so it can't in any way be bottlenecked by a slower drive.
 
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Thanks - in fact looking at the mini-sas cable, I can see that it is actually made up of 4 smaller ones, so presumably they are still kept separate through the mini-sas socket. Should have noticed that before.
 
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