SAS and SATA allow system builders, IT professionals and end users to economically fine-tune their systems for application performance and reliability.

Yet a third key motivation of moving to SAS is the ability to build tiered storage solutions on a common backplane consisting of both SAS and the less expensive but high-capacity serial ATA (SATA ...

Hey all, how interchangeable are SAS and SATA drives/controllers? Do you have to have a special controller card that is designed to be backwards compatible or is SAS natively compatible with SATA ...

I am trying to decide whether to go with SAS or SATA hard drives in a server which will be running virutal machines. I have quotes for an 8 drive RAID 10 SAS and SATA configurations.The SAS drives ...

The cost of a SAS drive can be 10 times the cost of a SATA drive for the same capacity. For example, a 450Gb 15K RPM SAS drive has a street price of about $1,000 — if you can find them, as they ...