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Article Excerpt Whether for a server or for a storage enclosure, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive options provide a scalable, flexible, better performing, and efficient solution to go beyond the inherent limits of parallel technology--just in time for today's data explosion.
Research, online activity, desire and need for data isn't just causing a data expansion, it's literally an explosion. In a recent study at the University of California Berkeley, the rate of storage performance is growing 30 percent year over year. The report states that all "physical media--print, film, magnetic and optical--and seen or heard in four information flows through electronic channels--telephone, radio and TV, and the Internet" will at some point be stored for retrieval. This holds true at the enterprise level with data collection spanning email, security, and financial transactions.
Parallel SCSI and Serial ATA technology limits
Parallel SCSI ran its course from Wide Ultra to Ultra 2 and so on until Ultra 320, the latest version which transmits data at 320 megabytes per second. The next generation, Ultra 640 at 640 megabytes per second, remains elusive with the industry unable...
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