To all with interest in IBM 7090

12 Aug 2012

...
   There was a
perfectly good alternative to ATA/IDE, and has been for
 ages.  It's called SCSI.  It is, and was at the time SATA was
 introduced, a mature, proven technology with a huge installed base.  
   Absolutely.  There are several other notable foibles of that
 industry...the very existence of (IBM's proprietary) SSA and SAS, which
 are both completely pointless in the face of FibreChannel...they are all
 just different physical layers for SCSI. 
What's wrong with SAS? SSA I can see a big argument against (and you just
made it), but SAS is solid and interconnects with SATA, as Al pointed out.

I like FibreChannel fine, but SAS seems perfectly decent to me.

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