Storage hardware
Terms related to storage hardware, including definitions about solid state drives and words and phrases about hard disk drives, tape drives, disk arrays and tiered storage.- SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive) - A SAS SSD (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drive) is a NAND flash-based storage or caching device designed to fit in the same slot as a hard disk drive (HDD) and use the SAS interface to connect to the host computer.
- SATA 2 (SATA II) - SATA 2 is a marketing term to describe products that use a revised version of the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) standard.
- SATA controller - A SATA controller handles how hard drives are connected to a computer's motherboard.