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6 Gbit drives coming

Chip vendor PMC-Sierra and Seagate announced that they've . . . achieved interoperability between PMC-Sierra’s end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate’s early development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives HDDs. This successful demonstration of 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI SAS interoperability provides server and storage system equipment...

Tags: Disk, PMC-Sierra Inc., Serial Attached SCSI, Seagate Technology LLC, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-05-13

SAS and the Market Overview

Serial Attached SCSI SAS, the successor technology to the parallel SCSI interface, leverages proven SCSI functionality and features while expanding SCSI's proven performance, scalability and reliability for enterprise storage. SAS offers many features not found in today's mainstream storage solutions such as drive addressability up to 16,000 devices per port,...

Tags: Storage, SCSI, SAS Institute, Serial Attached SCSI, Xtore Extreme Storage

White papers 2006-11-06

SAS: The New Paradigm

Savvy IT managers can quickly deploy storage solutions tailored to their specific needs: Serial Attached SCSI SAS drives are clearly the best choice for mission-critical use, where transactional/online performance and reliability are crucial, while Serial ATA SATA drives are cost effective for capacity-oriented applications, such as archive, and disk-to-disk backup....

Tags: SAS Institute, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-03-21

Evolution in Hard Disk Drive Technology: SAS and SATA

Two new serial interfaces to disk drives are replacing two venerable parallel interfaces. The Advanced Technology Attachment ATA interface will be succeeded by Serial ATA SATA, and the Small Computer System Interface SCSI will be replaced by Serial Attached SCSI SAS. These new point-to-point technologies provide greater dedicated bandwidth and...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, SAS Institute, Serial Attached SCSI, International Data Group, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-07-01

Dual-Port SAS Drives Are a Boon to IT

The new serial interfaces, Serial Attached SCSI SAS and Serial ATA SATA, have been designed to replace their parallel predecessors. They will support faster data transfer rates and more devices per controller, as well as reduce the size and complexity of the cables and connectors (thus enabling smaller, more densely-packed...

Tags: Information Technology, SAS Institute, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-05-01

Additional Resources

Pliant talks up lower energy consumption, cost savings of its new enterprise flash technology

Start-up storage vendor Pliant Technology has begun shipping a new class of enterprise flash drives to OEMs for evaluation and qualification that should become available in commercial format by the end of September 2009. The technology, called Lightning, is a cache-less enterprise flash format that is designed...

Tags: High-performance Computing, Cost Savings, Watt, Cloud Computing, Storage, Leadership, Hardware, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-15

300GB 2.5" SAS drives from HP

HP has begun shipping 300GB 2.5" 10,000 RPM SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI) hard drives. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Bus Hound 6 (Windows)

Bus Hound is a software bus analyzer for capturing I/O, protocol, and performance measurements from a wide variety of devices and buses. You can also submit your own custom commands to devices including bus resets. Bus Hound is a 100% software product. Supports any device attached to IDE, SCSI, USB,...

Tags: Sony PlayStation 2, Perisoft, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, FireWire, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-08-11

High-end disks dead in 2 years

Dave Donatelli, a senior exec at EMC - the largest data storage vendor - predicted that high-end flash drives will replace high-end hard drives in 2 years. Is this the beginning of the end for disk drives? What is a high-end hard drive? Unlike the...

Tags: Notebook, Disk, USB Flash Drive, Chip, PC Board, Notebook Disk, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Sun launches Intel Workstation on X38 platform

Following last month's launch of dual-socket and quad-socket Intel-based servers, Sun Microsystems launched its first Intel based workstations in two decades.  The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation is based on the latest Intel X38 chipset (which replaced Intel's 975 chipset). Equipped with Intel quad-core processors, up to 8...

Tags: Workstation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Corp., Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, Sun Solaris, PCI, UNIX, Operating Systems, FireWire, Workstations, Servers, Software, Storage, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: Storage Performance Characterization of HP Smart Array P600 SAS Vs. HP SA6402 Ultra3 SCSI Controllers

This paper provides a performance comparison between an HP Smart Array P600 controller with 10K RPM SAS drives and an HP Smart Array 6402 (SA6402) controller configured with 10K RPM Ultra 3 SCSI drives and with 15K RPM Ultra320 SCSI drives. The results of these comparisons demonstrate the benefits of...

Tags: SCSI Controller, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Exchange Server, SAS Institute, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-01

Dell PowerVault MD1000 2000 Mailbox Clustered Continuous Replication Microsoft Exchange2007 Storage Solution

The Dell PowerVault MD1000 is a modular disk storage expansion enclosure for PowerEdge servers capable of housing up to fifteen 3.5-inch disk drives in a single 3U rackable chassis. The direct attached storage enclosure supports both Serial Attached SCSI SAS and Serial ATA SATA disk drives. This paper provides information...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Disk, Dell PowerVault, Mailbox, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Replication, Dell PowerVault MD1000, Storage, E-mail Servers, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-07-16

Microsoft Exchange 2007: Changing the Storage Landscape for Messaging

Microsoft Exchange 2007 includes new features and capabilities that are beginning to help reduce the costs associated with e-mail storage. At the same time, Serial Attached SCSI SAS-based storage systems are delivering high performance and high capacity at a low cost. These innovations combine to enable an affordable increase in...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Storage, Groupware, Online Communications, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-07-09

Why home RAID won't fly

Why home RAID won't flyRight onA home server is a silly concept. Just backup your stuff easily and cheaply on an external hard disk in a USB casing. 500 GB storage for about $ 150.To top it off: this is a much "greener" solution as well... You only have to...

Tags: Storage, Backups, home server, RAID, backup

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

IBM xSeries 206m

IBM's xSeries 206m is the midrange model of the three new servers that mark Big Blue's foray into the low end of the SMB small and midsize business server market. Ideal for smaller and budget-conscious businesses, the xSeries 206m combines enterprise-level functionality with a single-processor x86 platform, but at an...

Tags: Utility computing, Serial ATA, Servers, Storage, PCI, IBM xSeries, server, IBM Corp., RAID, Intel Pentium

Product reviews 2006-01-10

HDD Interface Technologies

The interfaces of Hard Disk Drives HDDs have been changed to serial interfaces to meet the demands for high-speed data transfer. The main interfaces involved are the Fibre Channel FC, Serial ATA SATA, and Serial Attached SCSI SAS. Because of the recent demands for cost reduction, however, requests are being...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-01-01

CATC 10K SASTracer 1.2.0.10 (Windows)

CATC 10K SASTracer: SASTracer analyzer is a Serial Attached SCSI test and debug platform that combines non-intrusive, recording with powerful decoding features that interpret and explain SAS protocol. Built on the CATC Protocol Analyzer System 10K Platform, the SASTracer is the first SAS analyzer to support 4-Wide links running at...

Tags: Link, SAS Institute, Microsoft Windows, CATC

Software downloads 2003-11-05