Published: September 2021 The Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Integrator’s Guide provides a quick reference to the menu of standard components required to assemble a SAS system, from the SAS drive (a hard drive or a solid state drive (SSD)) out to the enclosure level, including the associated box-to-box cabling. The standard cables shown assume that… Read more »
STA President Marty Czekalski presented “SAS: The Fabric for Storage Solutions” on April 7, 2015, at SNIA’s Data Storage Innovation Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Topics in this presentation included: SAS Market Overview, including basics of SAS architecture and deployment SAS Technology Update, including 12Gb/s SAS, 24Gb/s SAS, and Advanced Connectivity SSDs, MultiLink SAS™, and… Read more »
On January 21, 2015, STA President Marty Czekalski gave a presentation titled “SCSI Continues to Evolve” at the Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) meeting during the SNIA Annual Members’ Symposium. In this presentation, Czekalski covered the following topics: New SCSI features for flash and performance Beyond 12Gb/s SAS Advanced connectivity Status of 24Gb/s SAS Zoned… Read more »
STA President Marty Czekalski and STA Vice President Greg McSorley gave a series of presentations at Powering the Cloud in Frankfurt, Germany in October 2014, including one presentation in the Storage Innovation Theatre and two shorter presentations in the Meet the Experts Theatre. Storage Innovation Theatre Presentation: SAS: The Fabric for Storage Solutions (October 29,… Read more »
On September 16, STA President Marty Czekalski presented an update on SCSI standards and technology at Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Topics include: SCSI Express New SCSI features for flash and performance, including extended copy, atomic operations, hinting, SCSI-SF, and power limit control Express Bay Beyond 12Gb/s SAS Advanced Connectivity 24Gb/s SAS MRD… Read more »
Presenters: Harry Mason, President, SCSI Trade Association Marty Czekalski, Vice President, SCSI Trade Association Where: Storage Networking World Fall 2011, Orlando, FL When: October 12, 2011 In this presentation Mason and Czekalski present: Update on the SCSI Trade Association Range of SAS… Read more »
If you’re a regular reader of STA’s Serial Storage Wire, you know that there’s a transition taking place in the storage industry from FC-AL to Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) storage architectures and disk drives… NetApp is well into this technology transition, where SAS-connected disk shelves now account for a majority of storage shipped with new NetApp®… Read more »
Presenters: Harry Mason, President SCSI Trade Association, and Director of Industry Marketing at LSI, Corp. Marty Czekalski, Vice President SCSI Trade Association, and Interface & Emerging Architecture Program Manager at Seagate Where: Storage Developers Conference, Santa Clara, CA When:… Read more »
Extending SAS innovation: 12Gb/s SAS MultiLink SAS™ Advanced Connectivity Extending-SAS-Innovation-2011.pdf
By: Harry Mason, President SCSI Trade Association, Director of Marketing, LSI Where: FOSE Conference & Exhibition, Washington, DC When: July 11 – 14, 2011 Mason presents an overview of the SCSI Trade Association, SAS technology and the market for SAS products and technology, including key markets, sample deployments and what SAS innovations will present in… Read more »