Seven reasons why Serial Attached SCSI will be the new enterprise storage standard

A white paper supplied by Infortrend Corporation.

Overview
The most pervasive storage networking technology has come to a crossroads. For the past 20 years, parallel SCSI has been the predominant data centre interface and the standard means for hard drives to interconnect and communicate in server and storage environments. However, its use of a parallel bus nature prohibits future growth and development and must be overhauled in order to address next-generation demands for signal integrity, performance, reliability, and even such fundamentals as cable lengths.

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is emerging as the succeeding standard for enterprise server and storage environments. SAS uses serial technology to leverage proven SCSI functionality and offers new levels of performance, availability, and customer choice by supporting both enterprise-class SAS disk drives as well as cost-effective SATA disk drives in the same environment. With the flexibility to configure storage subsystems with either or both types of drives, storage managers can mix high performance and low cost storage in the same subsystem to maximise their return on investment and ensure scalability for future growth.

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•Date: 24th April 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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