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).

San Mateo, Calif. – PMC-Sierra Inc. has become one of the first chip makers to dive into the nascent market for the serial attached SCSI interface. The launch of its PM8380 QuadSMX 3G reflects a ...

The Serial Attached SCSI 1.0 specification has been forwarded by the T10 Committee to the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), the SCSI Trade Association (STA) ...

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 ...

The current state of the industry for device-level storage attachment requires system designers to develop multiple solutions for a full range of storage price/performance options. With the advent of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Driven to perform: Serial attached SCSI will push performance far higher than its predecessor as well as the parallell and serial version of the ATA interface. The high end of the storage world is ...

Supporting the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) industry standard for storage system and hard disk drive interfaces, the PM8380 QuadSMX 3G Gigabit serial interconnect is a ...

The emerging Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) standard is SCSI’s answer to Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) storage. But the specification, approved by the International Committee for Information ...

Billed as the industry's first Serial Attached Small Computer System Interface (SAS) analyzer, the SASTracer can support "wide" links. It's software-upgradable to support Serial ATA II (SATA) protocol ...