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Serial Hard Drive Interface Compatibility

Overview Use of the parallel bus interface, which has long been the industry-standard storage interconnect, is on the verge of decline among the vast majority of system builders. Components that are based on the aging interface are increasingly being replaced by their evolved serial counterparts - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). The new serial interfaces are designed to address the bandwidth limitations of their predecessors. They will support faster data transfer rates and more devices per controller, as well as reduce the size and complexity of the cables and connectors (thus enabling smaller, more densely-packed disk arrays). Among the most significant benefits is that incompatibility between SCSI and ATA will finally be addressed.

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PublisherHitachi File FormatPDF
Date PublishedMay 2005 Downloads2
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