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 ...

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 ...

I have a bunch of SAS drives that were in disk shelves or rack mount servers that have been decommissioned due to power usage and noise. I'd like to still use the drives though, since they are at disk ...

Since SATA made its debut back with the Intel ICH5 Southbridge, its performance ability was questioned, and its usefulness over Parallel ATA was brought up. At introduction, SATA was no faster than ...

SATA and SAS are two serial connections protocols between hosts and peripherals in desktops, servers, and other applications. The protocols are similar in terms of data rate and signal requirements ...

Today, we’ll compare the new Serial Attached SCSI disk technology to other disk technologies now available. For the next few years, Fibre Channel and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) will continue to be the ...

I am trying to decide whether to go with SAS or SATA hard drives in a server which will be running virutal machines. I have quotes for an 8 drive RAID 10 SAS and SATA configurations.<BR><BR>The SAS ...

Hard disk drive (HDD) capacity and price are not the only ways to determine the choice of drive deployed. Other specifications such as connection protocol, energy efficiency and even how drives write ...

Criteria for deploying flash solid state drives (SSD) are no different to any disk technology. Decision-making should match disk performance to application requirements based on three primary factors: ...

Today we have the first 12Gb/s SAS HDD in our labs for testing, Seagate's 6TB nearline Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4. A few months ago, Seagate brought an entire family of 7,200 RPM drives in ...