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 ...

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 ...

research Serial Attached SCSI or SAS is a communication protocol for direct attached storage designed to allow much higher speed data transfers than traditional SCSI (small computer system interface).

Let’s talk about SCSI for a moment. The disk interface which was once ubiquitous with high-end workstations and servers is now on the verge of obsolescence. With the influx of inexpensive and reliable ...

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 Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of drives ...

In the market for a SAS drive? IT departments are tasked with the critical mission of storing and managing vast amounts of business information. But data storage isn't just a matter of buying more ...

It is always difficult to hold back that sense of feeling like a kid in a candy store every time a box of Cheetahs arrives. Oh goodie, oh goodie, oh goodie! - Now that we have that out of the way ...