SAS | Serial Attached SCSI. A serial, |
| leverages the proven SCSI protocol set. The SAS interface provides improved |
| performance, simplified cabling, smaller connections, lower pin count, and lower |
| power requirements when compared to parallel SCSI. SAS controllers leverage a |
| common electrical and physical connection interface that is compatible with Serial |
| ATA. The SAS controllers support the ANSI Serial Attached SCSI standard, version |
| 1.0. In addition, the controller supports the Serial ATA (SATA) protocol defined by |
| the Serial ATA specification, version 1.0a. Each port on the SAS RAID controller |
| supports SAS and SATA devices. |
SAS Device | Any device that conforms to the SAS standard and is attached to the SAS bus by a |
| SAS cable. This includes SAS storage adapters (host adapters) and SAS peripherals. |
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