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SAS Starter Kit: Mixing SAS and SATA Drives in a Single Enclosure

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SAS Starter Kit: Mixing SAS and SATA Drives in a Single Enclosure

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) has begun to play a key role as the enterprise continues to move towards more optimized, cost-effective storage platforms. Overcoming many of the limitations of traditional parallel SCSI implementations, SAS solutions that offer connectivity choices and support both SAS and Serial ATA (SATA) drive technology enable enterprises to easily create tiered storage environments. However, concerns about performance expectations and Rotational Vibration Interference (RVI) in mixed SAS/SATA environments are preventing many organizations from adopting SAS technology. (March 2007)

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