Connectors For Data Storage - Technology & Market

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

• Storage Developments, Trends and Forecasts
• Storage Situation and Trends Overview
• Consumer Storage
• Server Storage
• Background
• Internet Brings Change
• New Regulations Surface
• Conclusions

Chapter 2

• Storage Architectures
• Direct Attached
• Storage Area Networks
• Network Attached Storage

Chapter 3

• Storage Vendors
• EMC
• IBM
• Hitachi
• HP
• Network Appliance
• Others

Chapter 4

• Storage Facts and Figures
• Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, 1Q04
• Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, 1Q04

Chapter 5

• ARRAY Types
• Striping and Mirroring
• Levels of RAID
• RAID 0
• RAID 1
• RAID 2
• RAID 4
• RAID 5
• RAID 6
• Higher Level RAID
• JBOD

Chapter 6

• Storage Attachment Methodologies
• Introduction
• ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment (or AT Attachment)
• SCSI -- Small Computer System Interface
• Fibre Channel
• ATA / Serial ATA
• External SATA Disk Drives
• SATA II
• SATA Consumer Applications
• SATA Connector Units
• SCSI / Serial Attached SCSI
• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
• Fibre Channel
• iSCSI
• Optical Storage Devices
• ATAPI
• Other Optical Drives

Chapter 7

• Tape and Other Storage Technologies
• Flash Storage
• Tape Drives
• Exabyte Mammoth
• Quantum DLT and Super DLT
• LTO
• AIT
• VXA-2
• Tape Libraries

Chapter 8

• Network Storage Switches
• Switches for SANs
• Switch OEMs
• Optical Extenders

Chapter 9

• Storage in the Future
• Changing form Factors
• Max Capacity: A Moving Target
• Size Matters
• Price Matters

Chapter 10

• Connector Market Forecast
• Disk Drives
• Standards
• ATA connectors
• ATA for Desktop PCs
• Laptop ATA Connector
• SATA
• SCSI / SAS
• SCSI I/O
• Serial Attached SCSI
• Fibre Channel and iSCSI

Chapter 11

• Conclusions