Wow, my first post. Where to start, SO many questions.<br><br>Let's begin with my IT hopes and dreams:<br><br>I am an (amateur) hardware geek and have been trying to work out the "best" setup for me ...

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 ...

Sonnet Technologies Inc. on Thursday announced updates to its Tempo-X Serial ATA (SATA) host controllers for the Macintosh. The company has added hot-swap functionality to the controllers, and has ...

The new Adaptec Series 6E RAID controller is currently targeting a storage and system builder market that currently relies on software-based RAID controllers, said Tom Flageollet, director of ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Agere Systems is sampling a custom hard disk drive controller with a native serial ATA interface codeveloped with Maxtor Corp. The announcement marks another milestone in the march ...

Port Multipliers can combine up to 5 SATA hard drives into one eSATA connection. The 5 drives can be set up as individual drives, as RAID set or with JBOD to become one large hard drive depending on ...