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 ...

If you’re looking to buy or upgrade a media storage system there are numerous choices with sometimes puzzling details to consider. In past articles, we’ve discussed RAID variations, the SAN vs. NAS ...

I have a bunch of SAS drives that were in disk shelves or rack mount servers that have been decommissioned due to power usage and noise. I'd like to still use the drives though, since they are at disk ...

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 ...

The introduction of 6 Gb/s SAS-2 and SATA Gen-3 promises new levels of performance for networks. At these higher speeds, however, signal integrity becomes a significantly more important design concern ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

Since SATA made its debut back with the Intel ICH5 Southbridge, its performance ability was questioned, and its usefulness over Parallel ATA was brought up. At introduction, SATA was no faster than ...

Hey all, how interchangeable are SAS and SATA drives/controllers? Do you have to have a special controller card that is designed to be backwards compatible or is SAS natively compatible with SATA ...

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 ...

Many years and several bottles of Jägermeister ago I produced a few songs and ran the live soundstage for a couple of local bands. At the time digital recording with computers was in its infant stages ...

Criteria for deploying flash solid state drives (SSD) are no different to any disk technology. Decision-making should match disk performance to application requirements based on three primary factors: ...