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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How SAS, Near Line (NL) SAS, and SATA disks compare Your email has been sent Scott Lowe breaks down the differences in reliability and performance between SAS, Near-Line SAS, and SATA drives. When you ...

Current and future technology advances in HDDs for designing storage infrastructure with the best TCO. Details to consider in technology assessments, including cost, performance, and capacity.

A standard hardware interface for storage drives. Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of drives ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. NAND flash media solid state drives (SSDs) have largely displaced hard disk drives (HDDs) in client ...