We were right. Sort of. We knew there had to be more to the $999 Apple RAID Card. Thanks to astute commenter Scotty, we now do. It turns out it is an SAS controller as well.
Perhaps Apple are saving this announcement for some new products? It would make sense because while you can put SATA drives on an SAS controller, but you cannot put those insanely fast 15,000 RPM drives on the inputs on the current MacPro motherboard. (oops- turns out you can with an iPass connector - thanks commenter Trancepreist(!!). Apple hiding this expensive feature still doesn't make sense to us.
I did a full writeup at the "Other blog". See:
Apple Mac Pro RAID Card is an SAS controller.
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wow, turns out there are
wow, turns out there are some smart people on this blog after all - its not all just whiny fanboys bitching about hackers jailbreaking iPhones
You can put SAS drives in
You can put SAS drives in the current SATA ports of a Mac Pro. All 4 drive bays are routed with an iPass cable to the Mac Pro RAID Card.
damn, I thought you were
damn, I thought you were French. ?! :-s
Anyone know what alternative
Anyone know what alternative raid controller you can use? any brands? want to use the internal drive bays, but only need 2x raid1...