Explanation
SAS stands for Serial Attached SCSI, which is a type of interface that connects storage devices to servers or workstations. SAS supports both mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs), but not other types of storage devices, such as NVMe M.2, mSATA, or optical drives12.
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, which is a method of combining multiple storage devices into a logical unit that provides improved performance, reliability, or both. RAID 10 is a combination of RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 0 (striping), which means that data is written across two or more striped sets of mirrored drives34.
Therefore, the only type of storage device that the technician can install in a server that only has SAS connectors and wants to use RAID 10 is mechanical HDDs. Mechanical HDDs use spinning platters and moving heads to store and access data, and they are usually cheaper and have larger capacities than SSDs, but they are also slower and more prone to failure .
References:
CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Certification Study Guide, Chapter 3: Hardware, Section 3.3: Storage Devices, Page 131 CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) and Core 2 (220-1102) Exam Cram, Chapter 3: Storage, Section 3.2:
Storage Interfaces, Page 97
CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Certification Study Guide, Chapter 3: Hardware, Section 3.4: RAID, Page 143 CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) and Core 2 (220-1102) Exam Cram, Chapter 3: Storage, Section 3.4:
RAID, Page 104
CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Certification Study Guide, Chapter 3: Hardware, Section 3.3: Storage Devices, Page 129 CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) and Core 2 (220-1102) Exam Cram, Chapter 3: Storage, Section 3.3:
Hard Disk Drives, Page 99