# Computer hardware question

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**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [October 31, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/computer-hardware-question/185953 "2006-10-31T12:34:36Z")\
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> [@Coffee at home??](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/coffee-at-home/25476/8):
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> Does it make sense that you could do it if you had a SATA boot drive and 4 SAS drives?

i imagine you would need two different controllers to do that. What are you building?

I am not positive but I think the perc 5 controller only runs SAS drives and not SATA, and the perc 4 runs only SATA and not SAS. I don’t see how you could mix and match.

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