Storage Networking: The Basics Oct 27, 2009
Fibre Channel or iSCSI storage area networks, a definition that will soon include FCoE too ... Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) ... Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Cloud Storage, SSDs Take Center Stage at SNW Oct 15, 2009
The SCSI Trade Association (STA) unveiled the Serial Attached SCSI () Advanced Connectivity Roadmap, which includes a converged Mini-SAS High-Density (HD) standard connector, and 12Gbps SAS is also on the roadmap ... NEC added an iSCSI model to its D-Series SAN Storage lineup and introduced thin provisioning. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Oracle, Sun Team Up on Exadata 2 Servers Sep 17, 2009
Disk performance is 50 percent faster than the prior version thanks to 600GB serial-attached SCSI () disks. Lots of Flash Cache. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Startup's flash drives ride serial-attached SCSI Sep 15, 2009
has released two flash drives that ride the serial-attached SCSI interconnect and use a proprietary controller to deliver what it claims is a new level of performance and reliability. The company will compete with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, STEC and Toshiba who are all working on flash drives using the SAS interface for business servers. (EETimes)
Adaptec Launches MaxIQ(TM) SSD Cache Performance Solution for Maximum Application Acceleration in Data Center Environments Sep 9, 2009
Depending on individual data center requirements, an HPHA can consist of any combination of high-capacity, low-cost SATA (Serial ATA) drives or higher-performing SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives, plus SSDs ... These risks include: general economic conditions; that if we do not meet our operational objectives, we may have to continue to implement additional plans in order to reduce our operating costs; achieving necessary support from the contract manufacturers to which we have outsourced... (PR Newswire)
Dell Finds a Bright Spot in Demand for Storage Aug 28, 2009
Yet demand remains strong for one of Dell's smaller product families, the EqualLogic range of iSCSI (Internet SCSI) storage-area network products ... 4 billion to acquire the company and its iSCSI product line ... ISCSI is a transport protocol that allows blocks of data to be carried over an IP network without the need for specialized networking interconnects, like Fibre Channel. (BusinessWeek)
Speeding up Development on the Industry's Fastest SAS/SATA Protocol Analyzer Aug 13, 2009
Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Flash Memory Summit 8/12/2009 - , with its advanced line of Serial Attached SCSI () analyzers and Serial ATA (SATA) analyzers, is improving on its already with the addition of several major features: First, the new InstaSearch feature uses the latest MicroBlaze microprocessor technology to search through large trace buffers in seconds ... Additional decoding details are now provided for popular SCSI, ATAPI, and SATA protocols allowing for quicker analysis. (PR Newswire)
STEC Delivers Industry's First Enterprise Class 6Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Solid State Drive (SSD) Aug 12, 2009
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Determining the number of drives in a RAID group Aug 8, 2009
When should you use SAS, SATA, FC or SCSI ... DAS (direct attached storage) is what your environment typically contains if you don't have a SAN, and can refer to internal drives in your server or a SCSI RAID array attached to one or two servers. (Search Storage)
SATA drives: Four worst practices Jul 22, 2009
SATA is not SCSI, nor ATA for that matter ... Otherwise, you're likely to do the equivalent of trying to use ATA drives in applications where you should be using SCSI. ... If you're upgrading, it's awfully tempting to replace several 60 GB SCSI drives with one SATA drive to save money. (Search Storage)
RAID 6 vs. RAID 10 Jul 10, 2009
There's no technical reason why you can't use RAID 6 with SCSI drives, but there's not much incentive to do so. SCSI drives are generally smaller than SATA drives and they are considered to be more reliable. (Search Storage)
Testing iSCSI SAN performance with Iometer Jul 8, 2009
iSCSI SAN tuning tip: Iometer, a performance test tool for tuning Windows environments, can also be used to tune performance in iSCSI SANs ... Since Iometer tests many parameters of the storage network as well as the storage array, you need to isolate iSCSI performance from the array performance when running tests ... The best way to do this is to set the parameters to optimize storage array performance, so any variations that show up in the tests are the result of the iSCSI network. (Search Storage)
What are the differences between SATA II vs. SATA I? Jul 2, 2009
Although this is far less than the number of drives that can be connected using Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), this will make it much easier to build disk enclosures using SATA drives ... However, these improvements don't mean that enterprises will forget about SCSI and Fibre Channel and run into the arms of SATA. SCSI, Fibre Channel and soon SAS will still be the main candidates for mission-critical storage ... Online referred to the data center that operated 24/7 and usually... (Search Storage)
SGI Returns with New Data Storage Arrays Jun 30, 2009
It can handle slower, 7,200 RPM drives, fast 15,000 RPM serial-attached SCSI () and solid state drives (), which also use the SATA interface. All told, that can give a maximum of 31,000 I/O Operations Per Second (). (EnterpriseStorageForum)
How to determine the protocol for your SAN Jun 25, 2009
You can find ways to get the first for free by using MPIO for iSCSI or failover drivers from your Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) vendor ... If you go through the trouble of building a storage solution that offers enormous IOPS and throughput, you aren't likely to want to bottleneck all of this over a 1 Gigabit Ethernet high-latency iSCSI link ... Ideally, leveraging both iSCSI and Fibre Channel is the best option. (Search Storage)
SGI Targets Mid-Market With New Storage Play Jun 24, 2009
They can handle slower, 7,200 RPM SATA drives, fast 15,000 RPM serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and solid state drives (SSD), which also use the SATA interface. All told, that can give a maximum of 31,000 I/O Operations Per Second (IOPS). (SmallBusinessComputing)
Sun Adds Solid State Drive Management to ZFS Jun 1, 2009
" Solaris Gets CIFS, Block Storage Support Native support for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has also been added in addition to as a high-performance kernel with integrated features and support for Microsoft Windows semantics for security, naming and access rights, making for transparent use and sharing of files across Windows, Linux and Solaris environments. More on information on CIFS support can be found . Sun has also added new support for and block protocols into the Solaris kernel, so systems... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Pliant Technology Wins 2009 Red Herring North America 100 Award May 27, 2009
Pliant's EFD solution provides more performance and lower energy consumption than multiple traditional high-performance hard drives for enterprise computing environments, and is designed to take advantage of the ultra-high data transfer capabilities of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface technology. Strategically deploying EFDs within enterprise IT data center environments enables IT managers to meet I/O performance requirements with greater flexibility, while eliminating the energy and cost... (PR Newswire)
2009 NAB Show Exhibitor Profiles Apr 18, 2009
As an industry leader in developing high performance expandable storage server solutions, Aberdeen provides customizable Stirling storage servers with scalability beyond 1 Petabyte, AberNAS Windows and Linux NAS appliance servers, scalable XDAS Direct Attached Storage along with iSCSI and Fibre based SAN. Featuring an unrivaled 5-Year warranty, Aberdeen delivers a distinct ROI advantage with superior performance and the best cost per TB ratio in the industry ... ATTO solutions are based on... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
AIC to Debut Gemini Server Platform at NAB Apr 18, 2009
AIC is a member of Intel Embedded and Communications Alliance, SCSI Trade Associations (STA), Storage Bridge Bay Working Group (SBB), and Peripheral Component Interconnect - Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG). Notes to editors. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Cisco's Bold Blade Server Gambit Mar 18, 2009
Usually the back side of a blade chassis has up to eight ports for Ethernet, Fibre Channel, a storage area network (SAN) and/or server-attached SCSI (SAS). The UCS chassis has just two ports, and that's for redundancy purposes. (Datamation)
Hammer and Dot Hill Announce Distribution Agreement and Immediate Availability of 2U 2.5-inch Fibre Channel to SAS/SATA/SSD External RAID System Mar 13, 2009
With the introduction of SSD support, Dot Hill are further extending their reach into newer markets where extremely high IOPS performance and high availability are essential," said Hammer's solutions manager, Paul Hickingbotham. Enhanced benefits The 2722 Fibre Channel (4Gb FC) and 2522 Serial Attached SCSI (3Gb SAS) arrays feature intelligent, fully redundant enterprise-class controllers, with optional support for Dot Hill's AssuredSnap(TM) snapshot and AssuredCopy(TM) volume copy data... (PR Newswire)
Fujitsu CeBIT 2009 Showcase; Stylish Scanning Innovations For Windows And Mac Operating Systems, The New ScanSnap S1500 and S1500M Series Mar 4, 2009
Operating in Europe/Middle East/Africa, Fujitsu Europe Limited is a market leading provider of document image scanners for professional desktop, workgroup and high volume production environments; Enterprise SCSI, FCAL and SAS, and Mobile ATA and SATA hard disk drives; high capacity external 2. 5-inch drives; KVM devices including switches, CAT-5 extenders and pull-out drawers; biometric authentication sensors as well as dot-matrix printers. (JCN Network, Japan)
Sun Turns Object Storage Over to OpenSolaris Feb 28, 2009
" Plant noted that while OSD protocol commands could be virtualized and delivered over virtual block protocols like iSCSI, "our sense is that this is an inappropriate model because it corresponds to a hardware device model that we not believe is in the interests of best storage economics ... " John Lohmeyer of LSI (NYSE: LSI), chair of the T10 INCITS SCSI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee, said that OSD "seems to offer a level of abstraction that should be compelling for some users. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
How To Delete a File ... For Good Feb 25, 2009
Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN for short) was developed by Darik Horn and works on IDE, SATA, and SCSI hard drives -- not, we should note, on USB or FireWire drives or any removable media. Once DBAN has finished with your hard drive, its master boot record, partition table, and every single sector will have been overwritten in accordance with the most stringent industry guidelines. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Apple to stop Micro-USB from becoming standard? Feb 25, 2009
" Except for that whole....Display Port thing right? Where is my HDMI? I have a feeling we'll be dealing with proprietary iPod/iPhone connectors forever folks. by February 23, 2009 2:46 PM PST I very much think that Apple will always stick to their proprietary connectors. Apple is Apple, and they'll do what they want, because they know that all the Apple sheep will come out and buy whatever they put out there anyway. What would be the point? by February 23, 2009 8:38 PM PST Sure they will. Just... (CNET News)
More specialty Linuxes to the rescue Feb 24, 2009
It provides drivers for a wide array of peripheral busses: It can talk to disk drives on IDE, SAS, SATA, SCSI, or iSCSI interfaces. If you need RAID, OpenFiler is compatible with hardware from Adaptec, LSI Logic, Intel, and others. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Dot Hill Sees Big Future for Small Hard Drives Feb 8, 2009
The new Dot Hill offerings are the 2722 Fibre Channel (4Gb FC) and 2522 Serial Attached SCSI (3Gb SAS) arrays, with fully redundant controllers. Options include Dot Hill's AssuredSnap snapshot and AssuredCopy volume copy data protection software modules. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
