TheRegister reports about a technology likely never to be
used in optical storage products, but in an industry that evolves this fast,
nothing is sure. Serial ATA is the follow up of the current ATA/ATAPI
interface, the way most CD and DVD recorders are connected, easily recognized by
the flat cables. But now also SCSI will have a follow up, called Serial SCSI.
SCSI was once the high end storage interface and currently only Plextor is
selling a CD recorder with a SCSI interface.
Most people will say that recent ATA products near
SCSI performance, but it seems there is still a demand for SCSI products, and
likely also for Serial SCSI products. Adaptec has started a project together
with some hard drive makers to develop the Serial SCSI interface, below you can
find the benefits:
more compact storage systems and longer cabling distances for systems. Some estimates have SAS pushing single streams of data through at rates several times faster than its parallel predecessor. Adaptec's SAS interface will let customers plug in either SAS or Serial ATA drives into the same backplane, letting users pick between different priced drives. The first product from Adaptec will ship data at 3 gigabits per second with a roadmap that extends out to 12 gigabits per second. |
Source: TheRegister
