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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MaxUpgrades on Thursday announced its MaxConnect SAS/SATA Link, a device that installs internally on the Mac Pro and lets you connect four internal disk drives to a PCI Express-based SAS or SATA ...

SilverStone have once again tried to create an innovative and flexible storage product, part of the Stackable Drive Series – SD01. This time it is a high-grade hard drive ‘pad’ with a screwless design ...