The place that good SATA support is needed it not for spinning disk, but for SSD. The price delta is huge and even consumer grade SSDs are ideal for L2ARC. -Chip <div class="gmail_quote">On May 4, 2014 4:43 AM, "Fred Liu" <<a href="mailto:Fred_Liu@issi.com">Fred_Liu@issi.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> [fred]：ok. Let's see how it goes after I get the hba. [fred]: I have got 6805H HBA. It can recognize the sata drives in bios but these drives cannot be detected in the latest illumos(smartos,oi) release. I haven’t got a sas drive to test. But the price delta between sas and sata drive under the same capacity is not small like USD30 at all. ☹. Thanks. Fred _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org">OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org</a> <a href="http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss" target="_blank">http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>