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In today’s digital world, the demand for storage is every increasing.
Dramatic advances continue to be made in the capacity, form factor
and performance of Hard Disk Drives (HDD). More recently, capacity
and reliability advances in FLASH-based Solid State Drives (SSD)
are encouraging mass adoption of these as a robust, low power storage
solution in diverse markets, from netbooks and laptops to enterprise
servers.
Serial ATA (SATA) has now displaced parallel ATA in new products.
Indeed the next generation of products are now looking to SATA3.0
with 6Gbps line rate.
For mission-critical applications, SCSI protocol remains preferred
over ATA protocol and in this market Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
is gaining strong traction, primarily with SAS2.0 / 6Gbps technology.
With the next generation of SSDs, SATA3.0 (6Gbps) will become
the interface of choice for the mass market. As SSD technology matures
and builds increasing traction in the Enterprise market, more and
more interest is appearing in SSDs with a SAS2.0 interface.
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