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:

And under store devices it shows:

SATA 6Gb/s6 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?

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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

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