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Friday, January 17, 2003
New chips take low-end drives higher - Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
ServerWorks, an influential maker of server electronics, has begun shipping prototype chips designed to let computer-component makers put lower-end hard drives to high-end use. The subsidiary of communications chipmaker Broadcom has begun shipping prototype chips intended to enable plug-in card makers such as Adaptec to federate numerous low-end disk drives into a single storage system. Grouping disks together, a technique called redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID), is common with higher-end SCSI hard drives, but the ServerWorks move could make RAID more feasible with lower-end drives that employ a new communication standard called Serial ATA, or SATA.
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