Been toying with a home server and wanting to up the storage a bit. Currently its on an old I3 2100 system with a couple sATA drives. Planning on using Proxmox/ZFS and add more drives, so now I have a ...

Is it just a "pay to play" sort of situation or is there a technical reason why densities on enterprise SAS drives are so much lower than even enterprise SATA drives? I'm looking at upgrading my ...

Customers request servers or storage arrays with drives based on the serial-attached SCSI (SAS) standard for a variety of reasons. The fact that SAS is the latest and most sophisticated in performance ...

A standard hardware interface for storage drives. Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of drives ...

In the market for a SAS drive? IT departments are tasked with the critical mission of storing and managing vast amounts of business information. But data storage isn't just a matter of buying more ...

Enterprise-class scalability and performance at desktop-like prices is the promise offered by intermixing SAS and SATA. But when these drives are mixed in the same enclosure, interoperability issues ...

Let’s talk about SCSI for a moment. The disk interface which was once ubiquitous with high-end workstations and servers is now on the verge of obsolescence. With the influx of inexpensive and reliable ...

Around Computex we started hearing about SandForce SF-1500 controllers being paired with SAS interfaces. At first we didn't think these products would live to see the light of day since the SATA ...

research Serial Attached SCSI or SAS is a communication protocol for direct attached storage designed to allow much higher speed data transfers than traditional SCSI (small computer system interface).

As you may know, like ATA, SCSI is a parallel technology with multiple devices included on each data channel. Also like ATA, SCSI has been overhauled with its own serial technology, aptly named Serial ...

Today, we’ll compare the new Serial Attached SCSI disk technology to other disk technologies now available. For the next few years, Fibre Channel and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) will continue to be the ...