Author: Jesse Molina, Product Marketing Manager, PMC-Sierra The transition from Parallel SCSI to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) has been taking place for more than three years, since the first SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) were introduced to the market in 2005. Since then, SAS has made its way into a number of applications: from high… Read more »
Category: SATA
SAS-SATA Compatibility – Could this be the Key to Scalable, Flexible Storage?
Author: Greg Meythaler, Product Marketing Engineer Intel We’ve all heard the mind-boggling statistics. Data is accumulating at a phenomenal rate, more than doubling every two years. And analysts estimate that even though a whopping 161 exabytes of digital information was created worldwide in 2006, we can expect to generate more than six times that amount… Read more »
Mixing it Up with SAS, SATA
Author; Kent Smith, Product Manager, LSI Corporation Exponentially increasing storage requirements in data centers, combined with the implications of regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA, entails large amounts of “business-important” information that must be periodically backed up and accessed while remaining readily available. IT managers are under extreme pressure to find storage solutions that… Read more »
SAS/SATA Compatibility Pays Off
Author: Suresh Panikar, Director, Branded Products Marketing Adaptec One of the most important factors in the growth of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is its seamless compatibility with Serial ATA (SATA) storage devices. Until the introduction of SAS, choosing a storage infrastructure meant making a choice to which a business would be committed throughout the long… Read more »
SAS/SATA Compatibility Hits its Stride
Author: Daniel D. Reno, Senior Strategist, Marketing and Strategy, Enterprise HDDs Hitachi Global Storage Technologies As noted by Gartner Group in the recent SCSI Trade Association (STA) press release, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) adoption rates experienced a significant increase in 2006, and SAS is expected to overtake Ultra320 SCSI, or Parallel SCSI, as the interface… Read more »
SAS + SATA = The New Paradigm for Storage Efficiency
Authors: Chaz Nichols, Global Channel Marketing and Kent Bransford, Sr. Technical Editor Seagate Technology “The only constant is change” is surely a familiar (and vexing) maxim to storage managers around the world. Grappling with this ever-present challenge requires a storage interface capable of both meeting today’s requirements and seamlessly adapting as priorities inevitably evolve over… Read more »
SAS/SATA Compatibility Simplifies Storage by Design
Author: Cameron T. Brett, Manager, Product Marketing PMC-Sierra, Inc. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) was designed from the ground up for compatibility with Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives. The benefits of this compatibility include lower total cost of ownership (TCO), increased flexibility and usability, as well as allowing for larger storage capacities in enterprise and small… Read more »
Simply SAS: Power of SCSI, Ease of SATA
Authors: Franco Castaldini, Sr. Product Marketing Manager and Kent Bransford, Sr. Technical Editor, Seagate Technology “If you fear change, leave it here!” may be the lighthearted counsel of cash-strapped baristas, but IT professionals know that proactively adopting change is serious business, a key to maximizing system performance and efficiency. Alas, pioneering storage technologies are often… Read more »
Helping Small and Medium Businesses Distinguish the Difference Between SAS and SATA
Author: Tonya Comer, Product Marketing Manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) holds the promise of the future for SMB users who will eventually need more input/output per second (IOPS) performance, easier connectivity and greater scalability, as storage requirements continue to escalate. As SAS products begin to enter the market in 2005, SMB… Read more »
How Do I Connect SAS and SATA HDDs to a SAS System?
PMC-Sierra was interviewed by a System Integrator about Serial Attached SCSI’s Cable and Connector Features and Uses Author: Rachelle Trent, Product Marketing Manager PMC-Sierra All Figures are courtesy of Molex The challenges that System Integrators (SIs) encounter when learning how to handle new technologies, new components and especially how to make everything work together, requires… Read more »
