Technologies

The rapid development of the storage market has brought with it and increasing number of new technologies, along with the acronyms to match!  On this page we look at some of these technologies and hope to bring some understanding to their meaning and application.

TOE (TCP Offload Engine) - This technology provides for increased throughput and reduced CPU overheads

SATA (Serial ATA) - a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. It is the successor to the legacy AT Attachment standard (ATA).

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is the next-generation storage solution for your business. SAS integrates two established technologies, combining proven utility, reliability and performance attributes of the SCSI protocol with the performance advantages of a serial architecture.

PCI-E (PCI-Express)- An implementation of the PCI computer bus (not to be confused with PCI-X) that uses existing PCI programming concepts, but bases it on a completely different and much faster serial physical-layer communications protocol.  The best technology for connecting SAS and SATA drives with faster and  higher throughput than the SCSI 320 standard.