Hard drive/ motherboard

[LaPistola]

Is this hard drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822116032

Compatible with this motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121059
Thanks

[Shiranai_Baka]

No

[lynx]

No - for SCSI drives you need a SCSI controller, few motherboards have them as standard, and there are several different "flavours" of SCSI which are not interchangeable.

[LaPistola]

Thanks thats what I thought
Can anyone tell me if SAS needs an adapter card, or if it can just plug into a serial port on your mobo?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822116015

[lynx]

SAS drives still need a suitable host adapter.

For those who are interested a host adapter for SAS drives should also handle SATA drives. Comparison here (http://www.snia.org/education/tutorials/fall2004/scsi/scsi_sas_sata.pdf) - P40.

One other thing to watch out for - ordinary PCI cards are simply not fast enough for SAS (or even SATA II), so you will only find PCI-X and PCI-E (usually x4) cards. PCI-X is not supported on the mobo you indicated, but a PCI-E x4 card would fit into any of the physically larger x16 slots, one of which is x4 electrically anyway.

[LaPistola]

sorry to seem so noobish but could you point me in the direction of one that is not to expensive and would suffice my needs?

[lynx]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118087

That's about the lowest priced I've seen which I know is compatible.

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/IBM_SAS_SATA_Interface_Card/39Y6985/K42744/froogle/&fr=AFT-p9XsGl-TBU9t18ylOkJQcbaVlyX6knmumuIhAcfsAAAAAAAAAAA&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=result&cd=3&usg=AFQjCNEu5h7j5rMV9ssfwhWCv3AVHNEHkA
This one is priced cheaper (only SATA I) but I don't know whether that comes with cables (I've seen them sold separately so I suspect not) or Windows drivers. It also needs a PCI-E x8 slot.

[LaPistola]

em maybe I should just skip the 15,000 rpm and get another 7,200