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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today's hard drives use SATA or SAS interfaces, which are the serial versions of their PATA and SCSI predecessors. SATA drives are found in most personal computers unless they use solid state drives ...

“Continuing our commitment to the industry's fastest-growing segment — 2.5-inch drives — WD is updating our small form factor SAS offering with the advanced technology of our third-generation drive, ...

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 ...

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 ...