Author: Rachelle Trent, SAS Product Manager, PMC-Sierra As enterprise storage requirements rapidly increase, expanding data throughput and providing scalable storage capacity is crucial. The goal of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) was to overcome the scalability and reliability limitations of parallel SCSI and to significantly improve the ability to add hard disk drives to a system.… Read more »
Category: Expanders
SAS: Revolution in Enterprise Storage – The Expander and Its Usage in Tomorrow’s JBOD Uncovered
Author: Sam Barnett, Product Line Manager, Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA Storage & Storage Networking Products, Storage Products Division, Vitesse Semiconductor Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) offers a wealth of benefits to the enterprise server and enclosure customer (high reliability and performance, mixed enterprise/desktop drive support, improved economies of scale), and key to scalability and… Read more »
Understanding the NexSAS Serial Attached SCSI Product Family
Author: Sam Barnett, Product Line Manager for Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA, Vitesse Semiconductor The NexSAS™ family of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) products from Vitesse offers server and storage enclosure OEMs, ODMs, and contract manufacturers (CMs) the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of solutions for the emerging SAS market. Comprised of edge expanders, fanout expanders,… Read more »
Important SAS Expander Features for System Integrators
Rachelle Trent, SAS Product Marketing Manager, PMC-Sierra As enterprise storage requirements rapidly increase, expanding data throughput and providing scalable storage capacity is crucial. System Integrators (SIs) need to understand the new features of expander devices now, in order to be ready for market adoption of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). The SAS standard specifies expanders, which… Read more »
The Importance of Expanders to System Integrators
By Rachelle Trent PMC-Sierra As enterprise storage requirements rapidly increase, expanding data throughput and providing scalable storage capacity is crucial. One of the goals of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) was to overcome the scalability limitations of parallel SCSI and significantly improve the ability to add hard disk drives to a system. Parallel SCSI is a… Read more »
System Integrators Can Benefit From a Crash Course in SAS Expanders
Author: Rachelle Trent PMC-Sierra As enterprise storage requirements rapidly increase, expanding data throughput and providing scalable storage capacity is crucial. System Integrators (SIs) need to understand the advantages and architecture of devices called “expanders” now, in order to be ready for market adoption of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). The SAS standard specifies expanders, which are… Read more »
SAS Expanders – Scalable by Design
Author: Mike Micheletti Computer Access Technology Corp. (CATC) Scalability can be defined as “the ease with which a solution or component can be modified to fit the problem as the size of the problem increases”. Scalability in the storage domain allows IT managers to respond to changing storage requirements within the enterprise, and is a… Read more »
Serial Attached SCSI Expanders: Key Components for Powering Storage Growth in the Enterprise
Author: Paul Griffith Adaptec SCSI is the most versatile disk interface used today for mass storage in enterprise environments by virtue of the protocol’s advanced features, throughput capabilities, and support for large storage infrastructures. But the growing need for faster, more complex data communications and more scalable storage systems raises the question of whether parallel… Read more »
