Once, long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, storage interfaces were pretty much proprietary things. Eventually the world split into storage devices dedicated to mainframes and storage devices devoted ...

Serial Attached SCSI drives are fast, robust, and for the most part identical to the high-performance devices already in use in the enterprise. Not only are they built to the same specifications that ...

Q: I monitor my disks with iostat, and sar, but these two tools don’t print the same numbers. There seem to be many measurements available but it’s not clear what they all mean. Finally, what ...

Serial-attached SCSI promises more flexible enterprise storage, while new low-power, 2.5-inch models deliver better performance That old standby storage standard, SCSI, is about to get a makeover. Two ...