Is SAS a proven technology?
Yes. In 2001, less than nine months after the initial brainstorming meeting, membership in the group working on Serial Attached SCSI expanded to almost 30 companies. A key goal of the group was to outline the general architecture and features of the interface and then move the detailed development of the document describing the interface to an open and unencumbered forum. After preliminary work was completed, the SAS project was submitted to the ANSI INCITS T10 technical committee for development as a national (and later, international) standard. The project was approved and, after significant work by the technical committee, a version of the draft standard passed letter ballot at the end of 2002 for completion of processing so that the draft would become an ANSI standard in 2003.
