Wow, my first post. Where to start, SO many questions.<br><br>Let's begin with my IT hopes and dreams:<br><br>I am an (amateur) hardware geek and have been trying to work out the "best" setup for me ...

Are SAS controllers AHCI devices? I just installed FreeBSD 8.2 on an older IBM server. I have 3 SATA disks (Hitachi 5k3000) connected to an LSI SAS3801E (the disks are in a DAS enclosure I put ...

The OXU3110 and OXU3111 Superspeed USB 3.0 to SATA controller ICs feature low power and small 6 x 6-mm 48-pin QFN packages. The OXU3111 includes a cipher engine for data encryption and takes only 521 ...

Designed for enterprise storage applications, the SiI 3124 serial ATA (SATA) host controller is a 64-bit, 133-MHz PCI-X to four-port device that is available in two pin-compatible versions. The SiI ...

The new Adaptec Series 6E RAID controller is currently targeting a storage and system builder market that currently relies on software-based RAID controllers, said Tom Flageollet, director of ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Agere Systems is sampling a custom hard disk drive controller with a native serial ATA interface codeveloped with Maxtor Corp. The announcement marks another milestone in the march ...

The Milpitas, Calif.-based company will introduce the MegaRAID SATA 300 8x controller at LinuxWorld in Boston, said Joe Leader, senior director of worldwide channel marketing and business development ...

Most home servers begin their lives using whatever storage connectivity happens to be built into a consumer motherboard. You plug drives into the onboard SATA ports ...