Serial Attached SCSI or "SAS" as it is commonly known, has been around for a while but it certainly hasn't taken off, especially in the Desktop space, like Serial ATA (SATA). GamePC, one of our ...

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 ...

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 ...

Readers often express concern over the comparative failure rates of serial ATA (SATA) and serial-attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel disk drives. Should buyers be put off if SATA’s failure rate is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of drives ...

How SAS, Near Line (NL) SAS, and SATA disks compare Your email has been sent Scott Lowe breaks down the differences in reliability and performance between SAS, Near-Line SAS, and SATA drives. When you ...

Boston Limited in partnership with Supermicro Computer, Inc., a leading company that produces high-quality serverboards, chassis and servers, is now delivering SAS server and storage solutions with ...

The rise of flash storage has been a dominant theme in the datacentre in recent years. And rightly so, with performance in the order of 100 times better than spinning disk media. But there are always ...