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SAS Investment Protection
White Papers The ATA and SCSI hard drive interfaces that are commonly associated with desktop and enterprise storage applications are examples of parallel bus architectures. The new serial interfaces - Serial ATA (SATA) for PCs and workstations and Serial...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Hard Disk Makers Collaborate For More Speed
News For years, there have been two competing standards for plugging disk drives into computers: the ATA technique used in PCs and the faster but more expensive SCSI method used in servers. To ensure ATA keeps pace with ever-faster computers, a...
[November 28, 2001, 9:10]
Serial Hard Drive Interface Compatibility
White Papers Components that are based on the aging interface are increasingly being replaced by their evolved serial counterparts - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). Among the most significant benefits is that incompatibility between SCSI and...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Monitor Hard Drive Health With SMARTDefender
News ATA or SCSI), including JBOD configurations, and won't detect RAID drives. It's used by drives of the ATA-3 standard and above. The software originated at Western Digital and was later integrated into the ATA standard.
[May 21, 2003, 13:37]
Fujitsu Puts Serial ATA Into Notebook Drives
News It is expected to be cheaper than the 133 MB/s ATA/133 standard and the 160 MB/s Ultra160 SCSI standard, and is software-compatible with existing software and BIOS. Serial ATA has received a mixed response from industry observers, with some arguing...
[January 5, 2004, 12:20]
IBM Plays Down Hard-drive Concerns
News Higher-end servers usually use faster and more robust SCSI drives, whereas desktop machines use less-expensive ATA drives. It is possible that ATA drives will fork into two different versions, some for desktop computers and some for lower-end...
[March 22, 2002, 15:14]
Buses, Bottlenecks And Speed
News However, until ATA hard drives match the performance and durability of SCSI drives, Serial ATA will remain a desktop technology not much different from Parallel ATA. Nonetheless, Serial ATA controllers will be cheaper than SCSI controllers, and the...
[September 24, 2002, 8:21]
Serial ATA And Serial Attached SCSI Technologies
White Papers This paper describes the current state of parallel ATA and SCSI technologies and the barriers they face in meeting the requirements of future enterprise technologies. Then it describes the fundamental features of serial I/O technologies that enable...
[May 15, 2004, 0:00]
IDE Vs. SCSI: The Main Hard Drive Interfaces
White Papers The computer market is dominated by two main hard drive interface standards - IDE/ATA and SCSI. Which is better is still debated endlessly on the Internet and in the technical community. The simple answer is that neither is really better than the...
[October 5, 2006, 0:00]
Dual-Port SAS Drives Are A Boon To IT
White Papers The new serial interfaces, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA), have been designed to replace their parallel predecessors. SAS goes beyond SATA by adding dual porting, full duplex, device addressing and it offers higher reliability...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
SAS And SATA Team Up For The Enterprise
White Papers A robust SAS infrastructure, which supports both the new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) drives without any bridging, enables new options for delivering diverse storage solutions. For the first time in the history of enterprise...
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
Notebooks Get Capacity Boost From Fujitsu
News The drive exploits the capacity advantage that serial ATA drives have over SCSI drives. However, SCSI drives typically perform more quickly than serial ATA drives and to get around this, Fujitsu has introduced a hardware accelerator.
[August 22, 2005, 17:00]
Active NTFS Reader For DOS
Downloads These important features allow you to: save and run from bootable floppy; display complete physical and logical drive information; support IDE / ATA / SCSI drives; support large (more than 8GB) hard drives.
[September 12, 2003, 20:31]
Assessing And Comparing HP Parallel SCSI And HP Small Form Factor Enterprise Hard Disk Drives In Server Environments
White Papers This paper only addresses the P-SCSI HDDs and small form factor enterprise HDDs, and does not include parallel ATA or Fibre Channel hard drive technology. This paper provides guidance and best case-scenarios for customers when deciding to implement...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Scaling Enterprise Storage With SAS Hard Drives
White Papers With the introduction of complementary serial interface technologies, IT managers now have the flexibility to deploy either high performance SAS drives or cost-effective Serial ATA (SATA) drives in a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage environment.
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Seagate Workload Management For Business-Critical Storage
White Papers Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives have rapidly found favor in many enterprise storage solutions, primarily due to their remarkably low cost-per-gigabyte and solid performance. Augmenting mission-critical parallel SCSI and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
BitMicro Announces 1.6TB Solid-state Drive
News The company sells a wide range of small drives in the Altima family in various capacities from 3GB and up, and in Fibre Channel, SAS, Serial ATA and SCSI formats. The latest product, announced this week, has a SCSI interface.
[February 8, 2008, 11:46]
Seagate Sets Out To Shrink Storage
News In addition, mobile 2.5-inch drives typically feature IDE connection interfaces, while 3.5-inch server drives have SCSI, Fibre Channel or the up-and-coming serial ATA. The enterprise 2.5-inch drives will also have interfaces in all flavours...
[May 21, 2003, 8:43]
Enthusiasts Get Raptor Instead Of Caviar
News The class of end-users who has traditionally embraced enterprise-class SCSI hard drives for their computing systems is now turning to Serial ATA for its increased performance and reliability. For those customers, the Raptor line will deliver data...
[May 13, 2003, 15:20]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment Laptop - MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 120GB ATA drive, Parallels Desktop virtualization (beta testing v.3.0 at the moment). Machine in back bedroom - SMP Dell 410 Workstation, busmastering SCSI subsystem, high-end graphics, etc.
[May 30, 2007, 4:25]
