To be clear, this is the opposite of an interposer. Instead of converting SAS signals to work with a SATA drive, it makes a SAS drive usable with a SATA controller. I have never heard of such a thing.

On Jan. 20, the SCSI Trade Association (STA) and the Serial ATA (SATA) II Working Group announced a partnership to enable SAS system-level compatibility with SATA hard disk drives.

A somewhat unfamiliar drive application is the Nearline-SAS (NL-SAS) drive, described as an enterprise-class SATA drive with a fully capable SAS interface and employing SAS components including heads, ...

SAS cables, however, will work with SATA drives.<br><br>Besides, even if the connectors were compatible, SAS drives use a taller form factor that will not fit in most laptops.

Since we only use Seagate 7200.11 1TB (SATA) or Seagate 15K.7 600GB (SAS) drives for testing, we asked iStorage Pro to send us a unit without drives.

SAS drives do not turn on just from receiving power, a command has to be sent to the drive and SATA does not support this command, thus the 15K.2 just sat there in an inoperable state.

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 Introduced in 2003, serial attached SCSI (SAS) superseded the parallel SCSI interface and is widely used in datacenters where large numbers of ...

Western Digital’s newly launched ePMR-powered UltraSMR HDDs can store up to 32TB, a new record for shingled magnetic recording-based drives. Thanks to ePMR, which WD has used since 2020 to ...

For starters, the latest SAS format, SAS-3, can move data at speeds up to 12 Gbits, which is twice as fast as SATA drives. SAS also delivers less hardware overhead, which is important when latency of ...

MaxUpgrades on Thursday announced its MaxConnect SAS/SATA Link, a device that installs internally on the Mac Pro and lets you connect four internal disk drives to a PCI Express-based SAS or SATA ...

In part two of a two-part series, we look at sustained data rates in hard disk drive (HDD) specs, SATA versus SAS, drive security, and how HDD makers pack density into products by shingling.