I bought two of these 6TB drives at a great price from Amazon. I did not notice they were SAS 12 Gb/s drives. From what I can figure out, they are the new version of SCSI drives.
OK, I will need an adapter card to get them to work in the system. No sweat, lots of room in the full tower case.
I have two 6TB drives, and with the giant files we generate, hard drive space is needed more than another RAID, but I see the advantage of a mirrored RAID of 6TB size.
I see lots of PCI-Express 3.0 cards, and the prices range from dirt cheap, to breathtaking expensive. The 12 Gb/s seems to be the big price jump. The 6 Gb/s cars are the cheap ones. The fast cards a expensive. All I really need is a two or 4 drive capable PCI card that can handle the speed and be reliable.
Is there a big difference in real world performance in the 6 or 12 Gb/s. The simple math is twice as fast. Is that realistic?
Anyone with a suggestion for a PCI card that is good, or one to avoid? If the expensive ($250+) are necessary OK. I was hoping to get an under $200 card and cables to make it work. A 4 port card may be better if I can add two more 6TB drives.