How can involvement in the SAS Consortium save my company money?
Perhaps the primary financial benefit of the SAS Consortium lies in the assembly and maintenance of a SAS device interoperability test bed, which is a continually updated collection of representative products from all participating members. The mutually beneficial aspects of having a continuously available reference interoperability test bed which companies can use to verify proper operation of their new SAS products is the single most beneficial aspect of the Consortium. Because of the group nature of the consortium, the reference test bed can be built at a significantly lower cost per member than what it would cost for any single member to attempt to build the same caliber test bed on its own (provided it were even possible to get access to such a large collection of pre-release products, which isn’t the case in the early stages of any new technology.) Also, the physical and phy layer conformance test services, which are included as part of a full consortium membership, provide an ad
