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LTO-6 Half-Height SAS Tape Drive
Introduction
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Rear panel of the SAS drive
Figure 3: SAS drive rear panel element descriptions
3.4
SAS interface
The drive has a Gbps SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) host interface.
A drive with a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface can be linked directly to
controllers. SAS is a performance improvement over traditional SCSI because
SAS enables multiple devices (up to 128) of different sizes and types to be
connected simultaneously with thinner and longer cables; its full-duplex signal
transmission supports 6.0 Gb/s. SAS drives will auto-negotiate speed. There
are no configurable topologies thus no setup is required for SAS interface.
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SAS/Power connector
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Feature block switch (on the underside of the drive)
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