Users will need more than just host bus adapters and disk drives to deploy the new Serial Attached SCSI technology. But the traditional way of designing the backplanes in storage racks could lead to high cost and not use the expansion and high availability aspects of SAS to best advantage. In this article one of the world's leading suppliers of computer chassis describes their award winning new backplane concept which gets the best out of the new SAS technology while reducing costs.

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