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Byte and Switch Insider Releases SAS and SATA Report
NEW YORK, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Serial Advanced Technology Architecture
(SATA) and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives are emerging as major components
of multi-tiered storage systems, according to new research from Byte and Switch
Insider (http://www.byteandswitch.com/insider).
The report, titled "SAS and SATA: Serious About Serial," finds that, while SAS
and SATA are the natural replacements for their parallel counterparts as the
drive interface for internal storage in servers and personal computers
respectively, they both have a promising future in external enterprise storage.
"The most common use today for SATA in external storage is in backup staging,"
says the report's author, Rik Turner. "But as disciplines such as information
lifecycle management take hold, it will become part of broader, tiered
hierarchies alongside Fibre Channel, SAS, and probably tape."
"For the RAID vendors, SATA is a means of offering economy class hardware for
secondary storage, while for the tape guys, it's primarily for backup staging
and archiving." Despite concerns over reliability, Turner argues that SATA
drives will see strong sales -- provided vendors get their marketing message
right.
Key findings from the report include:
-- SAS will sit between high-end Fibre Channel and low-end SATA to address
a multi-user, multi-drive, mission-critical, 24/7 market, just as SCSI
does today.
-- Some vendors favor iSCSI over SAS, since it will be three times faster
over 10-Gigabit Ethernet interconnects. They see iSCSI between the
boxes, bridged to SATA inside.
-- Some customers are, and will remain, uncomfortable trusting any of
their data to SATA.
-- MAID (Massive Arrays of Inactive Disks) vendors claim a three- to
fourfold improvement in the MTBF (mean time before failure) over
conventional, always-on SATA arrays.
Public companies analyzed in this report: Advanced Digital Information Corp.
(NASDAQ:ADIC); Adaptec Inc. (NASDAQ:ADPT); EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC);
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ); Hitachi Data Systems (HDS; a subsidiary of
Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE: HIT; Paris: PHA)); IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM); Network Appliance
Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP); nStor Technologies Inc. (AMEX:NSO); Overland Storage Inc.
(NASDAQ:OVRL); Quantum Corp. (NYSE:DSS); Storage Technology Corp. (StorageTek;
(NYSE:STK)); and Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW).
Private companies analyzed in this report: Ario Data Networks Inc.; Copan
Systems Inc.; Exavio Inc.; Huge Systems Inc.; Nexsan Technologies Inc.; Spectra
Logic Corp.; StoneFly Networks Inc.; and Xiotech Corp.
"SAS and SATA: Serious About Serial" is available as part of an annual
subscription (12 monthly issues) to Byte and Switch Insider, priced at $1,350.
Individual reports are available for $900. To subscribe, or for more
information, please visit: http://www.byteandswitch.com/insider .
Sales contact:
Dave Williams
Sales Director
Byte and Switch Insider
415-293-8470
Press contact:
Laura West
Outbound Marketing Director
Byte and Switch Insider
212-925-0020 ext. 105
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