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The storage capacity connected to Serial Attached SCSI is growing, predicting a long permanence of this technology in the market. Cameron Brett, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SNIA STA Forum, explained the role SAS plays at Technology Live!

The SCSI Trade Association’s 24G+ SAS standard builds on 24G SAS with features like “persistent connection.”

DNA can survive for millennia in the wild (e.g., recovery of DNA in 2 million+ year old fossils), but digital data encoded in DNA will be stored in manufactured DNA Containment Systems (DCS).

Command duration limits, logical depopulation, rebuild assist for SSDs, persistent connections are highlighted in the SAS Roadmap update.

At the 2024 SNIA Developer Conference (SDC), there were several sessions with updates on developments in more sustainable digital storage systems. With the accelerating need for digital storage and memory to support intense AI workloads, reducing the carbon contribution and improving the efficiency as well as reducing energy consumption of storage and memory have become extremely important.

The 2024 storage conference calendar features several high-profile events. Expect product news from major vendors at these shows plus discussions about top storage trends.

The SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum (STA) along with the INCITS/SCSI standards organization announced the launch of the 24G+ SAS (serial attached SCSI) standard. The new standard includes many features designed for HDDs and hyperscale applications.

There are tons of new features for enterprise hard drives and SSDs.

Specifications support both PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 technologies and use SNIA's SFF-TA-1016 connectors.

The SNIA DNA Archive Rosetta Stone (DARS) working group has developed two specifications, Sector Zero and Sector One, to enable archive readers to find the sequence to begin booting up the data.

Chris Evans, Storage Unpacked podcast host, chats with Rick Kutcipal, “At-Large Director” with the SNIA SCSI Trade Association Forum on the adoption of SAS media (both HDDs and SSDs) by hyper-scale customers, and the longevity of SAS into the future, even as the transition to flash-based media continues.

Discover the promises and challenges of persistent memory technology, the competitive landscape it faces, and the future implications of this revolutionary advancement in computing.

Answering questions from media and industry watchers, SNIA's Arthur Sainio, Tom Coughlin, and Jim Handy said that persistent memory has already matched the speeds achieved by modern DRAM technology.

Experts believe that DRAM will eventually give way to a new memory type, but it is too early to tell which one will triumph.