[zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

[Chuck Swiger]

On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I know what SAS stands for.

OK.

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

It means the connections to the devices are external, rather than being intended for internal devices:

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pvaul/topics/en/us/raid_controller?c=us&l=en&cs=555

> Do you get to provide your own ?

Devices?  Yes.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck