Over-priced Apple $999 SATA RAID Card is actually a reasonably priced SAS Card.

We were right.  Sort of.  We knew there had to be more to the $999 Apple RAID Card.  Thanks to astute commenter Scotty, we now do.  It turns out it is an SAS controller as well. 

Perhaps Apple are saving this announcement for some new products?  It would make sense because while you can put SATA drives on an SAS controller, but you cannot put those insanely fast 15,000 RPM drives on the inputs on the current MacPro motherboard. (oops- turns out you can with an iPass connector - thanks commenter Trancepreist(!!).  Apple hiding this expensive feature still doesn't make sense to us.

I did a full writeup at the "Other blog".  See:

Apple Mac Pro RAID Card is an SAS controller.

 

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