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Are SAS and Serial ATA compatible?

April 26, 2017ATA compatible SAS serial

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Are SAS and Serial ATA compatible?

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Yes, compatibility with Serial ATA is a core feature of Serial Attached SCSI. SAS backplanes and Host Bus Adapters (HBA) are fully compatible with Serial ATA, enabling connectivity for both types of drives on a common backplane, lowering infrastructure costs. SAS enclosures offer tremendous flexibility for growing businesses that can deploy Serial ATA drives when storage requirements are modest, and then seamlessly add SAS drives as evolving business needs dictate. This guarantees the freedom to specify the optimal drive for the application: SAS for transactional/online performance and reliability, Serial ATA for nearline and backup/restore duties.