SCSI Trade Association White Paper by: Harry Mason, Director, Industry Marketing, LSI Corp., With Contributions by Jay Neer, Advanced Technical Marketing Manager, Industry Standards, Molex Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) burst upon the storage scene in 2004 as a serial replacement for the once ubiquitous parallel SCSI interconnect. While much attention is often… Read more »
Contributed article to InterConnection World by Jay Neer, Molex The initial release for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) connectors and cables was a bit different from the typical release of a new I/O standard. The SCSI Trade Association (STA) was committed to enabling Serial ATA (SATA) connectivity with SAS, so close coordination was required between the… Read more »
Ultra320 SCSI gave way to 3Gb/s SAS (2005-06) 6Gb/s SAS was announced in 4Q08 6Gb/s SAS systems now shipping with full scale deployment expected 4Q09-1Q10. 6Gb/s SAS advances dramatically in external storage shipments Drive attach: significant penetration Host attach: steadily growing … the need for improved host connectivity is driving SAS Advanced Connectivity Roadmap Download… Read more »