Scratch partition on SATA SSD's on supported SAS controller

Hi all,

I'm looking at building my own ESXi 5.1 server for home study. This box will have a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i SAS controller, with 2 x SATA SSD's configured as RAID 1.

However I have just noticed the following statement on the ESXi hardware requirements...

"##For Serial ATA (SATA), a disk connected through supported SAS controllers or supported on-board SATA controllers. SATA disks will be considered remote, not local. These disks will not be used as a scratch partition by default because they are seen as remote."

Ref: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50%2FGUID-DEB8086A-306B-4239-BF76-E354679202FC.html

I had read somewhere that this may not be the case for SATA SSD drives connected to a SAS controller, and that ESXi would create a scratch on the SATA SSDdrives / array.

Does anyone know for sure?

Thanks,