Currently I am working with a company that has a Dell 2950 (embedded) with a PERC5i controller, attached are (6) 10K RPM 146GB SAS drives setup as 2 drives RAID1 (OS) + 3 drives RAID5 (file shares) + ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SATA and SAS are two serial connections protocols between hosts and peripherals in desktops, servers, and other applications. The protocols are similar in terms of data rate and signal requirements ...

The rise of flash storage has been a dominant theme in the datacentre in recent years. And rightly so, with performance in the order of 100 times better than spinning disk media. But there are always ...

The industry's first IOP-based, Serial ATA (SATA) II RAID adapter, the MegaRAID(R) 300-8X, to be shown along with the first combined Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HBA and MegaRAID SAS demo featuring ...

Hard disk drive (HDD) capacity and price are not the only ways to determine the choice of drive deployed. Other specifications such as connection protocol, energy efficiency and even how drives write ...

A standard hardware interface for storage drives. Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of drives ...

Today we have the first 12Gb/s SAS HDD in our labs for testing, Seagate's 6TB nearline Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4. A few months ago, Seagate brought an entire family of 7,200 RPM drives in ...