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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Instructions for Removing a RAID card?
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<blockquote data-quote="cowasaki" data-source="post: 646992" data-attributes="member: 36098"><p>The reason you can't mix SAS and SATA is due to the configuration of the Apple RAID card. The four drive bays are normally connected by cables to the main board and if the RAID card is fitted the cables are then plugged into the RAID card instead. The SATA connections on the main board are still there and can still be used. If you look at my post about fitting a SATA DVD writer you can use the same technique to fit another one or two SATA hard drives to complement the SAS ones. </p><p></p><p>IE you can have 4 SAS drives in the 4 bays attached to the RAID controller and then plug another drive into one of the motherboard SATA plugs and fit this into the 2nd optical bay slot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowasaki, post: 646992, member: 36098"] The reason you can't mix SAS and SATA is due to the configuration of the Apple RAID card. The four drive bays are normally connected by cables to the main board and if the RAID card is fitted the cables are then plugged into the RAID card instead. The SATA connections on the main board are still there and can still be used. If you look at my post about fitting a SATA DVD writer you can use the same technique to fit another one or two SATA hard drives to complement the SAS ones. IE you can have 4 SAS drives in the 4 bays attached to the RAID controller and then plug another drive into one of the motherboard SATA plugs and fit this into the 2nd optical bay slot. [/QUOTE]
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