Readers often express concern over the comparative failure rates of serial ATA (SATA) and serial-attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel disk drives. Should buyers be put off if SATA’s failure rate is ...

Last time we began to look at why vendors are moving us off the parallel SCSI interface and onto Serial Attached SCSI, or SAS – identifying benefits such as thinner cables and increased signal ...

Have you had a chance to take a look at the new SATA (serial ATA) drives and RAID controllers? You’ll appreciate SATA’s point-to-point, slim, independent connections between controllers and disk ...

LSI Logic announced this week that its PCI-X to 4-port SAS (serial-attached SCSI) HBA (host bus adapter) is the industry's first SAS component to qualify for Microsoft's “Designed for Windows Server ...

As the turn of the last millennium approached, it was clear that parallel SCSI had run its course as the interconnect of choice in network server storage. Ultra320 SCSI was the last generation of ...

The emerging Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) standard is SCSI’s answer to Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) storage. But the specification, approved by the International Committee for Information ...

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 ...

Seriously, I don't think you can realistically plan that far in advance, so I hope you're just asking out of curiosity. Either way, it may be interesting to come back to this thread in two years and ...