SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)

The next-generation SCSI interface, the serial implementation of the SCSI standard, providing greater flexibility, performance, reliability, and connectivity than the current parallel SCSI mainstream interface. SAS is designed for high-performance enterprise requirements and offers both the benefits of backward compatibility with SCSI and interoperability with Serial ATA, bringing enterprises a flexibility and cost savings not previously possible. SAS-based solutions are ideal for organizations with bandwidth-intensive applications, transaction processing systems, mainline storage requirements, and rich media types such as video.