WipeOS supports all of the most common storage devices. Two that we see very often are the SATA and SAS drives.
SAS stands for Serial Attached SCSI, may sound familiar as Parallel SCSI was a popular
type for CD-ROM drives in the past. The difference is that SAS can perform significantly faster than SATA.
SAS
SAS typically used in the enterprise or server environment. For users that need very reliable storage for many people can acess at once. They are more durable with higher throughput for a large number of drives on one controller. Making SAS able to support high capacity servers that need to be online 24/7. These drives are typically much more expensive and useful when there are many users accessing the drive at the same time.
SATA
SAS is a superset of ATA, which is to say an ATA port will plug into a SAS port, but not the other way around. SAS has extra connectors not present on an ATA device. Most consumer-grade drives are ATA. Most commercial-grade storage devices are SAS. SAS generally has a higher bandwidth than ATA as a rule of thumb.
