[OT] SAS disks

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Oct 12 16:44:22 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> said:
> Speaking as someone who has run a CDN in the past and one that currently
> runs an origin services company, 15K SAS drives work just peachy in the
> server environment.  SATA also works but is slower, of course.  Fastest
> would be fiberchannel or SCSI drives, but their cost is usually
> prohibitive.

SCSI is dead; SAS is the next-generation SCSI interface (SAS stands for
Serial Attached SCSI).
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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