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Installation- The canister worked out great in our server case. As we explained before the canister only requires two 5 1/4 drive bays and two molex power cords. Seeing the canister mounted and running with its blue LED lights for each drive was thrilling. Remember that we are running a total of eight 73 gig drives at 10k RPMs off of two standard molex connectors. This is not possible with SATA, IDE, or even the standard SCSI drives which require much more power and thus put off much more heat when operating. SAS drives are also available in 3.5 inch size, and the current limit is up 146Gb with larger capacities soon being available. Typically 3.5 inch SAS drives are not used in cannisters, and instead directly connect to the SAS add in controller card or to the motherboard. The cannister offered by AIC offers extreme storage with a minimum of space and power requirements. Installation was a breeze but does require a motherboard with a SAS controller onboard or a system with an add in SAS card such as the ones often found in new Dell Servers the PERC 5/i SAS internal RAID adapter or the SAS 5IR SAS internal RAID adapter. Both of these adapters are found in even the lower end servers and offer speedy drive access time, high bandwith, and large capacities. If you have a need for high end storage without the high end pricetag you might want to check these options out. Armed with a screw driver and a little know how we soon had our drive cannister installed and took it for a test drive. The size of a SAS drive pretty remarkable as you can see below. Sure we have seen hard drives for laptops before, but they didn't spin at 10k RPM. We will delve into the performance of these drives and show you why SAS is creating the impact it has been on drive technology. As you will soon see these are not your normal hard drives.
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