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Q&A from “SAS 201: An Introduction to Enterprise Features” Webcast

Questions from SAS 201 Webinar Answered In an effort to provide ongoing educational content to the industry, the SCSI Trade Association (STA) tackled the basics of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) in a webinar titled “SAS 201: An Introduction to Enterprise Features,” now available on the STA YouTube channel here. Immediately following their presentations, our experts… Read more »

Q&A from “SAS 101: The Most Widely-Deployed Storage Interface” Webcast

Questions from SAS 101 Webcast Answered In an effort to provide ongoing educational content to the industry, the SCSI Trade Association (STA) tackled the basics of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) in a webinar titled “SAS 101: The Most Widely-Deployed Storage Interface,” now available on demand here. Immediately following their presentations, our experts Jeremiah Tussey of… Read more »

SAS Isn’t Dying Any Time Soon

Article by: Cameron Brett, STA President, and Jeremiah Tussey, STA Vice President, for EE Times; October 12, 2020 You’ve no doubt heard it before. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is dying as a connected storage protocol in the data center. The simple truth is SAS remains the dominant storage interface today and will be for years… Read more »

SAS vs. NVMe: The future of the two key storage interfaces

Article on TechTarget.com, by Stacey Peterson; August 27, 2020 SAS and NVMe both play significant roles in enterprise storage. See how the two interfaces stack up in terms of performance, scalability, flexibility, manageability and the future. As NVMe SSDs make inroads into the enterprise market, the question remains: What’s in store for SAS drives? While… Read more »

SAS Customers Expect Innovation, Backwards Compatibility

Article by: Gary Hilson for EE Times; July 21, 2020 With all the buzz surrounding NVMe, you’ve no doubt been wondering what it all means for SAS. Read this insightful article published in EE Times where representatives from Kioxia America and Microchip, including STA Vice President Jeremiah Tussey, weigh in on why SAS continues to… Read more »

What is SCSI?

If you’re in the data storage industry, you’ve no doubt heard the term “SCSI”, which is pronounced “SKUZ-ee.” The most common reaction is “say what?” Yet SCSI has been around since 1986. To put that date in context, it was the same year email started being widely used and the Oprah Winfrey Show debuted nationally.… Read more »

24G SAS Feature Focus: Inherent Scalability and Flexibility

[Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of blog posts discussing 24G SAS features.] By: Jeremiah Tussey, Vice President, SCSI Trade Association; Alliances Manager, Product Marketing, Data Center Solutions, Microchip Technology, December 12, 2019 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and the SCSI protocol are undergoing an evolution, transitioning to 24G SAS and implementing new features… Read more »

SAS Lives On and Here’s Why

By: Rohit Gupta, Enterprise Segment Management, Western Digital In the Zettabyte Age, data is the new lifeline. Data is transforming anything and everything at an unprecedented rate in the globally connected world. Businesses are constantly looking for new ways of collecting, storing, and transforming various forms of data to extract intelligence for better decisions, improve… Read more »

24G SAS Feature Focus: Active PHY Transmitter Adjustment

[Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of upcoming blog posts discussing 24G SAS features.] By: Rick Kutcipal (SCSI Trade Association), with contributions from Tim Symons (Microchip), November 12, 2019 The first 24G SAS plugfest was held the week of June 24, 2019, and products are expected to begin to trickle out into the… Read more »

24G SAS Feature Focus: Forward Error Correction

[Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of upcoming blog posts discussing 24G SAS features.] By: Cameron T. Brett (SCSI Trade Association), with contributions from Tim Symons (Microchip) and Alvin Cox (Seagate), October 21, 2019 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and the SCSI protocol continue to innovate with one of the storage industry’s longest… Read more »