Trio of vendors showcase SCSI technology

Hewlett-Packard, Seagate and Adaptec have teamed up to debut the prototype version of the Serial Attached SCSI interface that the trio have been working together on, at the CeBIT America trade show in New York.

The new interface, which is compatible with both Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA disk drives, will - according to the vendors – give organisations increased flexibility in configuring disk storage for cost and performance in direct-attached and networked storage deployments.

The companies are pinning their hopes on the technology maintaining its lead over the lower-end but increasingly powerful Serial ATA standard interface.

Linus Wong, director of strategic marketing at Adaptec, acknowledges that SATA will grab its share of the market, but stresses that SCSI will remain valuable regardless.

"People continue to push ATA to its limits, but at the end of the day, the requirement for SCSI is still there."

John Monroe, research vice president at analyst group Gartner, says that "Serial Attached SCSI and small form factor enterprise-class drives will provide scalable speed, decreased power consumption and increased integration flexibility for diverse data needs in a variety of storage system architectures."

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