If you’re looking to buy or upgrade a media storage system there are numerous choices with sometimes puzzling details to consider. In past articles, we’ve discussed RAID variations, the SAN vs. NAS ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

Customers request servers or storage arrays with drives based on the serial-attached SCSI (SAS) standard for a variety of reasons. The fact that SAS is the latest and most sophisticated in performance ...

The introduction of 6 Gb/s SAS-2 and SATA Gen-3 promises new levels of performance for networks. At these higher speeds, however, signal integrity becomes a significantly more important design concern ...

Since SATA made its debut back with the Intel ICH5 Southbridge, its performance ability was questioned, and its usefulness over Parallel ATA was brought up. At introduction, SATA was no faster than ...

Hey all, how interchangeable are SAS and SATA drives/controllers? Do you have to have a special controller card that is designed to be backwards compatible or is SAS natively compatible with SATA ...

I am trying to decide whether to go with SAS or SATA hard drives in a server which will be running virutal machines. I have quotes for an 8 drive RAID 10 SAS and SATA configurations.<BR><BR>The SAS ...

MaxUpgrades on Thursday announced its MaxConnect SAS/SATA Link, a device that installs internally on the Mac Pro and lets you connect four internal disk drives to a PCI Express-based SAS or SATA ...

The MAX14980 quad-channel redriver is designed to redrive two full lanes of SAS or SATA signals up to 6.0GT/s (gigatransfers per second) and operates from a single +3.3V supply.The MAX14980 ...

Many years and several bottles of Jägermeister ago I produced a few songs and ran the live soundstage for a couple of local bands. At the time digital recording with computers was in its infant stages ...