We're planning on putting SATA SSDs into one of our boxes at work that has a SCSI interface. I'm wary of installing a new SATA card as it's pretty old hardware and we might get compatibility problems.

And that means (to put it simply) a 10k rpm drive, and to REALLY simplify it looks like the one for the moment is the Western digital Raptor 74Gb 10krpm sata. It doesn't hold as much as current drives ...

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System administrators are constantly looking for ways to save money on storage equipment while still getting the best possible performance, capacity, reliability and scalability. Performance and ...

The problem of persistent and reliable storage plagues us all. There are a myriad of solutions, some more expensive than others, but a dedicated and redundant network attached storage solution is ...

Readers often express concern over the comparative failure rates of serial ATA (SATA) and serial-attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel disk drives. Should buyers be put off if SATA’s failure rate is ...

As you may know, like ATA, SCSI is a parallel technology with multiple devices included on each data channel. Also like ATA, SCSI has been overhauled with its own serial technology, aptly named Serial ...

Serial Attached SCSI or "SAS" as it is commonly known, has been around for a while but it certainly hasn't taken off, especially in the Desktop space, like Serial ATA (SATA). GamePC, one of our ...

research Serial Attached SCSI or SAS is a communication protocol for direct attached storage designed to allow much higher speed data transfers than traditional SCSI (small computer system interface).

The latest Serial ATA (Sata) disk drives cost less than those based on older SCSI technology, but new tests by IT Week Labs show that they lag behind SCSI kit in terms of performance. In tests Sata ...

Both SCSI and ATA (also called EIDE) disk drives are about to reach the end of their useful lives as products, at least in their incarnations as parallel device interfaces. Both are giving way to ...