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I am into storage administration and learning about the SAN and NAS environments. There is much talk about SATA storage taking over SCSI. How does SATA differ in its functionality with SCSI?
Serial ATA drives are a serial implementation of ATA or as it is also known IDE implementation.



The "take over" term you used is probably some marketing BS or from someone who doesn't understand fully. There are justifications for both higher performance and less expensive disks. The real issue is the software to manage placement of data on the appropriate devices.

Randy Kerns


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