Fast Guide: Managing SATA drives

Fast Guide: Managing SATA drives

Serial ATA (SATA) is a drive interface designed to replace the Parallel ATA physical storage interface. The storage world has been buzzing about SATA drives for years, debating how it stacks up against other technologies.

Users of the SATA interface are benefiting from greater speed, simpler upgradeable storage devices and easier configuration. While SATA drives don't match the performance of Fibre Channel (FC) hard drives, they provide the low cost per gigabyte and high storage densities crucial for "near-line" storage tasks such as performing backups and archiving.

This Fast Guide is a compilation of SATA-related tips that have appeared on SearchWinComputing.com. As our site devotes more coverage to SATA, expect to see more tips related to upgrades and configuration.

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Fast Guide: Managing SATA drives
  Introduction
 Balancing SATA and SCSI
 Fixing conflicts between older and newer SATA drives
 SATA technology advances and expands in the enterprise
 Plugging into external SATA
 Choose SCSI over SATA for enterprise servers
 SATA can fill storage upgrade for older computers

 

This was first published in October 2006

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