(This lower speed is the same speed at which many of today's SAS proof-of-concept prototypes, based on expensive FPGAs, run.) Unlike half-duplex PATA, SATA, and even parallel SCSI, SAS will be a ...

Serial Attached SCSI drives are fast, robust, and for the most part identical to the high-performance devices already in use in the enterprise. Not only are they built to the same specifications that ...

The standards situation in the technology industry is generally so loose that it long ago became the target of jokes. For example, one goes, "What's the nice thing about standards? There are so many ...

(click thumbnail)This year SCSI, the industry-recognized naming acronym for "Small Computer Systems Interface" is 20 years young. SCSI standards began their evolution under a different name – SASI – ...

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 ...

The storage industry constantly faces the challenge of trying to manage ever increasing amounts of information efficiently and inexpensively. As a result, iSCSI-based IP storage-area networks (SANs) ...

Once, long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, storage interfaces were pretty much proprietary things. Eventually the world split into storage devices dedicated to mainframes and storage devices devoted ...