SATA and SAS are two serial connections protocols between hosts and peripherals in desktops, servers, and other applications. The protocols are similar in terms of data rate and signal requirements ...

Chestnut Ridge, N.Y. — LeCroy Corp. has introduced its Sierra M6-4 verification system, a protocol design and test solution for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). The Sierra family ...

Last week I discussed the two types of communication standards/protocols, SATA and NVMe for solid-state disk drives. Basically, the SATA protocol can be used on almost every computer, but the new NVMe ...

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 ...

When it comes to storage, then there are a lot of different connector types and protocols which might confuse some. Today I will take a little look at the most common used as well as some legacy ones ...

Emulex announced it has released a new embedded switch that is built on the new Fibre Channel to SATA (FC-SATA) protocol ratified last Wednesday by the ANSI T11 standards committee. The new ...

As I understand it, the SATA protocol supports hotplug, no? I have a two drive laptop, mSATA SSD for OS and programs, and an HDD for bulk storage. Is there a way to "unplug" the HDD in software, and ...

Persistent storage is an essential requirement of all computer systems. It provides the ability for data to be retained across server reboots where data in memory would normally be lost. For the past ...

When looking for a new SSD, it'snatural to want the best SSD that your device can support. And unless you're trying to upgrade from HDD to SSD in a device that only supports SATA, you're probably ...