SuperMicro adding double-sided storage server chassis

SuperMicro, one of the largest suppliers for “white-box” computer makers, presented their solution for high-density storage servers last month. Most traditional storage servers offer twelve 3.5 inch SAS or SATA drives per 2U of rackspace; the only exception to this are vendors offering top-loading drives such as Sun, and those offering disk trays holding more [...]

Supermicro also shipping SAS 2.0 products

Supermicro, one of the largest manufacturers of “white box” servers sold by smaller server vendors, has just announced the availability of several products supporting the new SAS 2.0 standard, increasing the transfer speed from 3.0 to 6.0 Gbps.