SATA is front and center this week, with related announcements from Maxtor, Data Protection Solutions and the Fibre Channel Industry Association. Also on deck is Interwoven's collaborative agreement with several storage leaders.

Maxtor's New Hard Drives Stress Scalability, Flexibility

Maxtor Corp. of Milpitas, Calif. has introduced a new family of disk drives with a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface that allows SAS and SATA (Serial ATA) disk drives to be configured in the same enclosure.

The Atlas line of drives offers a 3GB per second data transfer rate, dual ports, multi-initiator capability allowing multiple hosts to access a drive at the same time, point-to-point connectivity, scalable bandwidth and full duplex capability.

The drives support 1.5G per second SATA and 3G per second SAS devices.