SAS & SATA Combine to Change the Storage Market

Marty Czekalski, Senior Staff Program Manager Seagate Technology, Seagate Technology
Harry Mason, Director, Industry Marketing, LSI Corporation

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) allows systems to be built that accommodate large numbers of either SAS and/or SATA hard disk drives.  This presentation, intended for OEM, System Builders and End-Users, describes the capabilities of the SAS interface, overview of it’s technical capabilities, how it’s designed to interoperate with SATA drives and when combined, how these technologies can be combined to deliver some very compelling storage solutions. Also included will be an update of the new capabilities included in the SAS 2.0 specification.