CHAPTER SUMMARY
This chapter has outlined some popular I/O architectures suitable for large and small systems. SCSI-2, ATA, SATA, EIDE, PCI, USB, and IEEE 1394 are suitable for small systems. Fibre Channel and some of the SAM-3 protocols were designed for large, high-capacity systems. The SCSI Architecture Model-3 has defined numerous high-speed interfaces. Aspects of SCSI Architecture Model-3 overlap into the area of data communications because computers and storage systems continue to become more interconnected. For ease of reference, we have provided a summary of the storage interconnections discussed in this chapter in Table 13.5.
TABLE 13.5 A Summary of Various I/O Interfaces
Fibre Channel is one of the fastest interface protocols, ...
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