12Gb/s SAS Enterprise SSDs

Key takeaways

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• A 12Gb/s SAS SSD will link at 6Gb/s in an older SAS backplane and still function, since SAS interface generations negotiate down rather than refusing the connection outright.
• A 12Gb/s SAS SSD can process read and write commands simultaneously over the full-duplex link, while a SATA SSD's link is half-duplex, one direction at a time.
• New server platforms wire NVMe backplanes instead of SAS ones, so 12Gb/s SAS SSDs mainly serve as replacements for a drive already in a SAS-only array.