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 ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, outside of using expansion cards, there's not a lot you can do if you wish to add a few more SATA drives to ...

PMC-Sierra, Inc.,or PMC, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks, today announced the Tachyon(R) SPCve 6Gb/s SAS/SATA protocol controllers with integrated ...

HighPoint has been around for many years and if you have been tinkering around with PCs for more than a few years you are already familiar with the company. HighPoint was one of the very first RAID ...

For a couple of years now we've been graced with video cards capable of using every last drop of bandwidth provided by the PCIe 2.0 interface. The problem is that high end GPUs were pretty much the ...

SATA disk drives are normally in a one drive/one SATA controller port configuration. But in recent years, a new approach, known as the port multiplier, has extended this connectivity to multiple ...

Marvell introduces a new storage controller designed specifically for a high-performance hybrid of a traditional hard drive and a solid state drive. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with ...

A standard hardware interface for storage drives. Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of drives ...

If you're getting into the storage game, even on a locally-attached basis, there are a number of options from which to pick when it comes to the way that you will connect your storage. In this article ...

In most scenarios, storage capacity matters more than peak speed in home servers, and this is where SATA continues to be ...

Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space and ...