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Vladimir Panteleev
Asked: 2012-12-09 09:40:22 +0800 CST

Can the Intel C600-series SAS controller RAID SATA drives?

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(Sorry if this is off-topic - technically this is a home workstation setting, but is regarding mostly-server technology.)

I have a GA-X79S-UP5-WIFI motherboard and four ST3000DM001 drives, and the IRST manager isn't letting me put the drives in a RAID (it lists them, but the option to select the C600-series controller is simply grayed out).

Have I done a mistake? Do I need SAS drives to RAID them on the SAS controller?

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    Apparently, it's possible to just create the RAID array on a different controller (e.g. SATA) and plug the drives into the SAS controller's SATA ports. The array will be recognized. I can only explain the inability to create a RAID array on the SAS ports as an IRST bug.

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