Enterprise-class scalability and performance at desktop-like prices is the promise offered by intermixing SAS and SATA. But when these drives are mixed in the same enclosure, interoperability issues ...

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 ...

The introduction of 6 Gb/s SAS-2 and SATA Gen-3 promises new levels of performance for networks. At these higher speeds, however, signal integrity becomes a significantly more important design concern ...

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 ...

Hey all, how interchangeable are SAS and SATA drives/controllers? Do you have to have a special controller card that is designed to be backwards compatible or is SAS natively compatible with SATA ...

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 ...

Customers request servers or storage arrays with drives based on the serial-attached SCSI (SAS) standard for a variety of reasons. The fact that SAS is the latest and most sophisticated in performance ...

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 ...

The MAX4952 features independent input equalization and output preemphasis. The MAX4952 enhances signal integrity at the receiver by equalizing the signal at the input and establishing preemphasis at ...