Phoenix (AZ) - Seagate demonstrated for the first time the interoperability between multiple Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) disc drives running within the same storage array.
Seagate demonstrated the technology at the Storage Networking World, using SATA drives and SAS devices, which will be available later this year. While the interoperability of SATA and SAS was shown previously by Maxtor at Serial Storage in a Box Technology Symposium in October 2003, Seagate says it "essentially demonstrated a final product" where multiple SAS and SATA drives work together in one box.
The combination of both technologies in one array will give IT Managers new possibilities to allocate specific drives for specific types of data. Seagate claims that consolidating drives using fewer, subsystems also could "save a substantial amount of both money and space, as well as reducing IT storage maintenance costs."
