Maxtor's sneak preview of SCSI Drives

Storage systems provider Maxtor Corporation has publicly demonstrated engineering sample units of its Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). The technology demonstration showed how Maxtor(R) MaXLine(TM) Serial ATA (SATA) drives can be combined with Maxtor Atlas(TM) SAS drives in a single system enclosure, creating Serial storage in the box.

"With engineering demonstration units of our SAS drives, customers will be able to see the features that are designed into SAS drives such as the dual port connector in contrast to the single port connector that is present on today's parallel SCSI drives," said Joe DeRosa, senior director of marketing, Maxtor's Server Products Group. "In addition, customers will be able to see the common form factor and connectors that will enable system administrators to configure SAS systems with SAS or SATA disk drives."

By combining Maxtor's Serial ATA drives with SAS drives in the same storage system, IT managers will be able to support both near-line and high-transactional applications with a common storage enclosure.

"Storage systems based on Serial Attached SCSI will scale capacity and performance to meet the requirements of the most demanding enterprise applications while maintaining compatibility with Serial ATA disk drives," said Linus Wong, director of marketing for Adaptec's Storage Solutions Group. "Adaptec continues to work with technology leaders like Maxtor to drive Serial Attached SCSI development and bring the performance, flexibility and scalability benefits of the next-generation storage technology to our customers."

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