Determining if motherboard has SAS compatibility and SAS software RAID compatibility?

Question

What specs are you supposed to look for in a motherboard to determine if it has SAS compatibility and SAS software RAID compatibility built into it?

I'm looking under the details of this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128510

And under store devices it shows:

SATA 6Gb/s 6 x SATA 6Gb/s

SATA RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD

Can SAS hard drives go plug into the SATA ports? Do I need a separate hardware RAID controller or does the motherboard support SAS RAID?

Solution

SATA controllers don't support SAS devices.

SAS controllers often do support SATA devices.

So far as I understand things.

So no, you need a separate SAS RAID controller (or use plain SAS controller + software RAID - usually not recommended)

See TomsHardware

Comments

[user3660103]

Also from what I've seen, motherboards that do support SAS will state so explicitly.