Apple, probably because they don’t offer SAS hard drives as standard or add-on for their MacPro machines, neglected to mention that the SATA RAID card they are selling for their MacPros is also a SAS ...

Seagate and LSI teamed up to bring SAS 2.0, 6Gb/s technology to enterprise and prosumer users in late 2009. The Seagate 15K.7 3.5 inch form factor and 15K.2 2.5" drives both showed performance ...

Need to add some serious speed and flexibility to your desktop or workstation? If you have a spare PCIe slot, LSI has the tool for you. It's the second-generation MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controller ...

In June we wrote an article about Adaptec's new Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection and explained how the company planned to introduce a revolutionary technology that would leave the battery protection ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PMC-Sierra, Inc., (Nasdaq:PMCS) or PMC, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks, today announced availability of its 12Gb/s ...

Network semiconductor maker PMC-Sierra today announced its first 6Gbit/sec RAID controller for both serial ATA (SATA) and serial SCSI (SAS) systems. The Adaptec Series 6E controllers double the I/O ...

We have (finally) retired this as our domain controller and fileserver. I want to re-purpose it as an offsite backup repository and as a NVR at my home, so I need some storage capacity, but I don't ...

“Traditionally, data in write cache has been protected from power and server failures using Lithium-ion battery backup units which require costly and time consuming hazardous shipping and disposal,” ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMC®) (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor and software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, today ...

The single-chip BCM8603 RAID Controller Moves systems into the new world of PCI Express AND Serial drives. IDE and SCSI RAID chips are common these days, but most of them also interface to PCI/PCI-X ...

This was among the driving forces behind the development of the Serial ATA standard, which showed potential to address these issues. Now in its second revision, SATA is delivering what system builders ...

Is it locking up? If not, I wouldn't worry about it. Adaptec's spec is an ambient temperature of 50C max (55C in some cases), not a chip temperature. Odds are good the controller chip is good beyond ...