3 Sep
2008
3 Sep
'08
12:19 a.m.
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Sorry for hi-jacking this thread, but it's very interesting. What's the difference, apart from the speed & price between SAS & SATAII?
On the most basic level I think of SAS as basically the new SCSI, and SATA II as the new PATA.
SCSI = smaller, faster SATA II = bigger, slower
SAS drives typically have higher quality control on them too. I get the impression that a lot more firmware bugs get out on the SATA drives vs the SAS/FC drives. Though the only time I've ever had to upgrade the firmware on a disk drive was regular U320 SCSI disks from Seagate sold via Dell.
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