Hi. I have 2 x Seagate cheetah 15k.6 drives on an Intel server attached through a SAS hot-swap expander, thus connected to the RAID controller by 2 sata 7-pin cables .
Since I'm buying a new custom built workstation, I was planning to transfer those disks on the new system. My question is, which cables should I get to properly connect the drives to the SAS/RAID controller? There are multiple type of cables available. Most of them are multilane and/or breakout cables which purpose I really don't understand.
I was thinking I should get this: http://www.cs-electronics.com/images/img061906/large/SAS-8282-1.jpg
Then again, there's the same cable but in a dual host variant: http://www.cs-electronics.com/images/img061906/large/SAS-8282-2.jpg - what would one gain with it?
Do I really need special cables or I can just connect the standard PSU sata power cable to the disks and a standard Sata cable from the disks to the controller?
Since I'm buying a new custom built workstation, I was planning to transfer those disks on the new system. My question is, which cables should I get to properly connect the drives to the SAS/RAID controller? There are multiple type of cables available. Most of them are multilane and/or breakout cables which purpose I really don't understand.
I was thinking I should get this: http://www.cs-electronics.com/images/img061906/large/SAS-8282-1.jpg
Then again, there's the same cable but in a dual host variant: http://www.cs-electronics.com/images/img061906/large/SAS-8282-2.jpg - what would one gain with it?
Do I really need special cables or I can just connect the standard PSU sata power cable to the disks and a standard Sata cable from the disks to the controller?