TL; DR: How reliable are Enterprise SATA drives compared to a) near-line SAS drives and b) 10-15K SAS drives under moderate load? Long Version: Pricing out some hardware for Phase 2 of a project.

If you’re looking to buy or upgrade a media storage system there are numerous choices with sometimes puzzling details to consider. In past articles, we’ve discussed RAID variations, the SAN vs. NAS ...

When weighing the benefits of the newest player in the storage market, enterprises need to look at the increased performance vs. the relatively small storage size. Solid state disks based on flash ...

Although Dell acquired both EqualLogic and Compellent and continues to develop and innovate in those portfolios, the company’s native PowerVault storage line does not appear to have suffered for it.

research Serial Attached SCSI or SAS is a communication protocol for direct attached storage designed to allow much higher speed data transfers than traditional SCSI (small computer system interface).

Serial-attached SCSI technology is poised to keep storage costs down without compromising functionality or performance. Until recently, data centers were populated primarily with storage-area networks ...