CRN

SAS Drives Ready, Market Needs Priming

While AOpen viewed its slick-looking miniPC as a consumer product, system builders had other ideas, snapping up inventory for a variety of commercial niches. Intel prepares to fire back at AMD with ...
EDN

WD® 3.5-Inch SAS WD XE™ Hard Drives Offer Flexibility, Extension Of Datacenter Hardware Investments

While demand for 3.5-inch, high-performance enterprise-class hard drives slows, a need remains for an alternate high-performance storage device as a transitional solution for legacy systems. WD XE ...
CRN

Seagate Unveils 1-Tbyte SAS And Self-Encrypting Hard Drives

The company's new Barracuda ES.2 hard drives with a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) interface offer a 135-percent boost in performance over SATA hard drives, said Henry Fabian, executive director of ...
Ars Technica

SAS drives worth it

Been toying with a home server and wanting to up the storage a bit. Currently its on an old I3 2100 system with a couple sATA drives. Planning on using Proxmox/ZFS and add more drives, so now I have a ...
Ars Technica

The dreaded 2TB limit of hard drive controllers

I had the opportunity to experiment with a bunch of LSI1068E based SAS controllers. As everyone knows, a SAS controller is also fully capable of handling SATA disks. And you get a much better cable ...
Computerworld

HP to ship first servers with smaller SAS hard drives

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will soon begin shipping its ProLiant servers with smaller, 2.5-inch (6.35 cm) hard drives based on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hardware interface, which could allow it to ...