Enter Adaptec. Probably one of the oldest (if not THE oldest) manufacturers' in the storage I/O industry. Adaptec are well known for their production of high-end server grade SCSI, IDE and more recently, SAS/SATA controller cards. Today we've been given the opportunity to test one of the latter in the form of their "RAID 2405 "SAS/SATA controller. For those of us who haven't come across the acronym SAS before, it stands for Serial Attached SCSI which is in effect the latest edition of the SCSI standard. However, whereas previous SCSI technology has relied upon its own unique parallel based interface, SAS uses connectors that are interchangeable with the widely used SATA standard and thus both SAS and SATA based hard disks can operate on the 2405 controller.



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