On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:55:03 -0000, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
The last gasp of the SCSI bigots is Serial Attached Scsi. It's
hilarious. Electrically it's identical (they just gold-plate the
connectors and such so they can charge more for it). The
giveaway is that you can plug a SATA drive into a SAS controller
and it works on "dual standard" controller firmware.
Which one's going to have the unit volume to be cheap and sell
through its inventory to bring out new generations faster? And
which one is exactly the same technology with buckets of hype,
slightly different firmware, and a huge markup for the people who
still think that because ISA sucked, its designated successor PCI
can't be trusted?
Buying the exact same technology for way more money, based on a
two-decade old bias in an industry where a given generation of
hardware becomes obsolete every 3 years. Funny to me, anyway...
[snip]
SAS will have the old SCSI advantage of multiple devices per
chain though. That is something that is very off-putting about
SATA actually that you need as many interfaces as you have
disks.
For commercial reasons, you'll probably find that the more
expensive SAS disks will be the ones with the lower seek-times,
the better warranties etc. We may not like it, but it ain't
going to change in a hurry.
Regards,
--
Anders Karlsson <[email protected]>
QA Engineer | GnuPG Key ID - 0x4B20601A
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