I have a bunch of SAS drives that were in disk shelves or rack mount servers that have been decommissioned due to power usage and noise. I'd like to still use the drives though, since they are at disk ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PMC-Sierra, Inc., (Nasdaq:PMCS) or PMC, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks, today announced availability of its 12Gb/s ...

Are SAS controllers AHCI devices? I just installed FreeBSD 8.2 on an older IBM server. I have 3 SATA disks (Hitachi 5k3000) connected to an LSI SAS3801E (the disks are in a DAS enclosure I put ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMC®) (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor and software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, today ...

In June we wrote an article about Adaptec's new Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection and explained how the company planned to introduce a revolutionary technology that would leave the battery protection ...

Intel's latest RAID controller has been announced, the RS2BL080, capable of directly controlling up to eight SAS or SATA hard-drives with support for both 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s interfaces. The RS2BL080 is a ...

PMC-Sierra Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) will get a jump on the transition to the 6-Gbit/second serial attached SCSI (SAS) hard-disk interface today by announcing that it is sampling a controller for the ...

RAID controllers are a lot of things to different people. Some like me, a power user, is able to tune the RAID block size for general use computing, balancing the small file IOPS with large sequential ...

As you may know, like ATA, SCSI is a parallel technology with multiple devices included on each data channel. Also like ATA, SCSI has been overhauled with its own serial technology, aptly named Serial ...