In addition to enabling these small rackable servers, the low profile board delivers increased value to workstations and dedicated task servers that have little space for add-in options. The low profile form factor meets customers need for a physically smaller server. In many cases this increased overall implementation costs, limited flexibility, and hampered the ability to provide increased system scalability. Choosing the best approach to RAID-based storage requires application and requirement analysis, and today s end users and systems integrators are faced with a steadily increasing number of technology choices. While new bus technologies continue to improve open storage bottlenecks in speed and other limitations including, cable distance, drive capacity and capabilities, drive prices continue to drop steadily.
SCSI products can include any of the above mentioned features.
Keep in mind, however, that just because a product says it provides support for Ultra3 does not mean that the product supports all the features listed. A highly reliable gigabit interconnect technology, it allows concurrent communications among workstations, mainframes, servers, data storage systems, and other peripherals using SCSI and IP protocols. It delivers a new level of reliability and throughput. It is the best solution for IT specialists who require reliable information storage and delivery at blazing speeds. It also adds packetized commands which will make command overhead comparable to fibre, thus further reducing the gap.