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Western Digital Unveils 4 TB SAS and Enterprise SATA Drives

Storage maker delivers its highest capacity hard drives for denser arrays with an eye toward tackling cloud storage crunch.
Tags : SAS, Storage, Sata drives

Forklift vs. Incremental Upgrade -- Weighing All the Factors

As the recessions drags its way to a close, many enterprises have upgrade needs and budget to spend in an environment that has seen little innovation. Deciding whether to go with a forklift or incremental upgrade is not a choice to be made lightly.
Tags : upgrade, SAS, SATA, purchase, upgrade cycle

Nexsan Storage Buying Guide

Looking for a SAS or SATA disk array? Nexsan's product line may lack the hype of the major players' but its high value proposition and low price point make it a worthy contender.
Tags : Buying Guide, SAS, SATA, Nexsan, disk array

LSI Storage Buyer's Guide

If you have servers or storage devices, chances are you have at least a component or two from LSI Corp's arsenal of RAID and HBAs, controllers, SAS switches, PCIe-based solid state storage adapters and various software options, which are all sold through major server and storage OEMs as well as through the reseller channel.
Tags : RAID, SAS, PCIe, LSI, RAID Controller, HBA

PMC Launches 6Gbps SAS Controllers

PMC-Sierra claims up to 2GBps sustained data transfer rate.
Tags : RAID, SAS, PMC-Sierra, PMC

Solid State Disk Market Heats Up

With the SSD market on the grow, vendors continue to vie for their share of the segment with new products.
Tags : SSD, SAS, fibre channel, solid state disk

Capacity-Optimized Nearline SAS Drives Challenge SATA

Already well established in high-performance drive markets, SAS is now penetrating secondary storage tiers with capacity-optimized drives and challenging SATA’s dominance in the data center.
Tags : SAS, SATA, HDD, hard disk drive, Secondary Storage

IBM Resells LSI 6-Gig SAS RAID Array

The long-running storage networking partnership between IBM and LSI shows no signs of slowing.
Tags : IBM, storage networking, SAS, LSI, storage array

PCIe 3.0 Specification Coming Soon

The PCI Express 3.0 specification will finally be released in the third quarter, but don't expect products for another year or so.
Tags : storage networking, SAS, fibre channel, virtual I/O, PCIe

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS): Building Up, Moving Out

The key to scaling out lie in the SAS expanders, inexpensive switching devices interposed between the SAS controller and the endpoint devices that multiply the number of ports that may be connected to each controller.
Tags : storage networking, data protection, iSCSI, SAS

The Synchronix Data Storage Array Boosts Performance

Storage Engine has introduced an enhancement with the Synchronix 4140 data storage array, giving it a nice performance boost.
Tags : data storage, SAS, storage array, Storage

Coraid Delivers EtherDrive Storage Arrays, HBAs

The company announced availability for its new line of EtherDrive SRX-Series storage arrays and new host bus adapters that enable high-speed Ethernet SAN access.
Tags : SSD, SAS, SATA, storage array

LSI Announces 6Gbps SAS Switches for Storage Networking

LSI turns direct-attached storage (DAS) into storage networking resource.
Tags : storage networking, SAS, LSI, Switch, Storage

Top 10 Data Storage Technologies That Could Disappear

Instead of predicting which technologies will take over the data center, we give you the ones most likely destined for the scrap heap of history.
Tags : data storage, storage networking, SAS, RAID storage, tape backup

Dell Does DAS with 6-Gig SAS

Direct-attached storage is very much alive, thanks to 6 Gbps SAS technology.
Tags : Dell, SAS, RAID controllers, DAS

Brother, Can You Spare a Petabyte?

Even in tough times, there's more to data storage purchasing decisions than saving money.
Tags : data storage, deduplication, SAS, SATA, cost management