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    Storage Bus Speeds 2018

    Published: (Updated: ) in Storage Performance, , by .

    Storage bus speeds with example storage endpoints. Bus Lanes End-Point Theoretical Bandwidth (MB/s) Note SAS-3 1 HBA <-> Single SATA Drive 600 SAS3<->SATA 6Gbit SAS-3 1 HBA <-> Single SAS Drive 1200 SAS3<->SAS3 12Gbit SAS-3 4 HBA <-> SAS/SATA Fanout 4800 4 Lane HBA to Breakout (6 SSD)[2] SAS-3 8 HBA <-> SAS/SATA Fanout 8400 […]

    SATA on Nutanix. Some experimental data.

    Published: (Updated: ) in Nutanix, , , , by . Leave a Comment on SATA on Nutanix. Some experimental data..

    The question of  why  Nutanix uses SATA drive comes up sometimes, especially from customers who have experienced very poor performance using SATA on traditional arrays. I can understand this anxiety.  In my time at NetApp we exclusively used SAS or FC-AL drives in performance test work.  At the time there was a huge difference in performance between […]