SAS vs SATA in MacPro

[Kevin Callahan]

On Apr 10, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> this may be the wrong list - but I'm looking at setting up a RAID in  
> my new MacPro for uncompressed video capture.
>
> It was suggested I look at the Barracuda ES.2 drives.
>
> They come in SAS or SATA.
>
> Is there a reason I should choose one over the other?  When I look  
> in my profiler for the MacPro, I see that both drive types are  
> supported.
>

looking at the specs, the SATA version has a 32MB cache and the SAS  
version has a 16MB cache.


> Thanks,
> Kevin
>