[zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

[Damien Fleuriot]

On 10/20/11 6:52 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:57 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>> Also, what do they mean by "SAS 6Gbps External Controller" ?
> 
> SAS is "serial attached SCSI"; it permits multipath connections to devices and thus is more similar to fibre channel HBAs than SATA, although some SAS controllers will also work with normal SATA drives.
> 
> Regards,

I know what SAS stands for.

My question was, what do they mean by *external* controller ?

Do you get to provide your own ?