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Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology Transition

Overview SAS technology encompasses a set of innovations that change the familiar parallel SCSI interconnect between a server and its storage devices. Industry leaders recognize that SAS embraces the best features of other serial storage solutions and provides a roadmap for innovation and improvement for many years to come. A major SAS benefit is its compatibility with SATA. Both types of disk drives can be installed and controlled in the same SAS system.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2004	Downloads	1807
Format	White Papers
Topics	Hard Drives, Storage Management, Removable Storage

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