Serial ATA in Enterprise Storage

摘要

1. Serial ATA is well on its way to make to be the dominant HDD interface in Desktop PCs 2. In addition, SATA addresses the major concerns the Enterprise storage market place has traditionally had with desktop HDDs 3. This unique combination of "Enterprise Class" features and volume based pricing gives SATA the potential to be a significant interface for Enterprise Storage 4. In conclusion, the significant cost savings brought to the storage shelf by SATA HDDs, could make possible 4.1 Storage shelves that are scalable w/o performance and/or reliability loss 4.2 Storage shelves that have both file and block level I/O 4.3 Other features?