Serial ATA (SATA or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. Serial ATA was designed to replace the older ATA (AT Attachment) standard (also known as EIDE), offering many advantages over the older parallel ATA (PATA) interface.
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Connecting a SAS server drive with SATA USB cable + Converter
I'd like to connect a SAS drive (ST3600057SS) to my computer via a USB SATA cable combined with a SAS to SATA converter.
This doesn't work and I would like to know why and if there's any way around it.
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How to connect 12 SATA 3 disks to a server with GA-790XTA-UD4 board
How can I connect 12 SATA 3 disks to a motherboard that has just two SATA 3 connectors. What solution would you recommend?
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What is a Fibre Channel disk?
Our NetAPP SAN uses something called "Fibre Channel" disks.
What are Fibre Channel disks, and does this mean that I can't replace them with a NetApp SATA or SAS disk?
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