About SAS
"Serial Attached SCSI is intended to directly address the future needs of these anticipated shifts in the market being driven by dense computing. This new proposed standard will provide the enterprise feature set of SCSI, including manageability, performance, reliability and scalability, with the serial interconnect offered with Serial ATA. This combination of features provides enterprise customers a highly robust data center solution, with a unique universal interconnect that provides a choice of incorporating a lower cost, desktop class Serial ATA product, or an enhanced Serial Attached SCSI product.
This choice will greatly improve data center manager's ability to provide the right type of storage based on quality of service requirements in the enterprise. If customers demand non-mission critical, scalable storage (where performance and 24x7 uptime is not required), a desktop class Serial ATA drive should be deployed. If users require server or storage subsystem access that is mission critical, where the quality of service is geared towards increased performance and reliability, users can take advantage of Serial Attached SCSI which will utilize the same physical connecter inside the subsystem. "
Thorin
"Serial Attached SCSI is intended to directly address the future needs of these anticipated shifts in the market being driven by dense computing. This new proposed standard will provide the enterprise feature set of SCSI, including manageability, performance, reliability and scalability, with the serial interconnect offered with Serial ATA. This combination of features provides enterprise customers a highly robust data center solution, with a unique universal interconnect that provides a choice of incorporating a lower cost, desktop class Serial ATA product, or an enhanced Serial Attached SCSI product.
This choice will greatly improve data center manager's ability to provide the right type of storage based on quality of service requirements in the enterprise. If customers demand non-mission critical, scalable storage (where performance and 24x7 uptime is not required), a desktop class Serial ATA drive should be deployed. If users require server or storage subsystem access that is mission critical, where the quality of service is geared towards increased performance and reliability, users can take advantage of Serial Attached SCSI which will utilize the same physical connecter inside the subsystem. "
Thorin