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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,
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-Chuck