Another major advantage of an HBA is how naturally it scales. Consumer motherboards usually top out at six to eight SATA ...

Are SAS controllers AHCI devices? I just installed FreeBSD 8.2 on an older IBM server. I have 3 SATA disks (Hitachi 5k3000) connected to an LSI SAS3801E (the disks are in a DAS enclosure I put ...

I have a bunch of SAS drives that were in disk shelves or rack mount servers that have been decommissioned due to power usage and noise. I'd like to still use the drives though, since they are at disk ...

HighPoint has been around for many years and if you have been tinkering around with PCs for more than a few years you are already familiar with the company. HighPoint was one of the very first RAID ...

While much of the focus for SSDs have shifted to M.2, PCIe and NVMe drives, a significant portion of the market remains int he SATA realm. Though they are not able to push the performance limits of ...

Unfortunately, outside of using expansion cards, there's not a lot you can do if you wish to add a few more SATA drives to the storage mix. If you're like me and don't wish to outright replace the ...

Marvell introduces a new storage controller designed specifically for a high-performance hybrid of a traditional hard drive and a solid state drive. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with ...

For a couple of years now we've been graced with video cards capable of using every last drop of bandwidth provided by the PCIe 2.0 interface. The problem is that high end GPUs were pretty much the ...

A standard hardware interface for storage drives. Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of drives ...

If you're getting into the storage game, even on a locally-attached basis, there are a number of options from which to pick when it comes to the way that you will connect your storage. In this article ...

Adding more hard drives directly to your computer's internal SATA connections adds storage and optimizes the speed with which your computer can read and write to the new drive. This added space and ...