Around 300 million hard drive disks shipped in 2017 alone. That’s without any mention of solid state drives, the main competition for traditional HDDs.

Even within the world of HDDs, you find a divide that many people don’t recognize immediately. Specifically, it’s the SAS vs SATA hard drive divide.

Both SATA and SAS use the traditional platters and magnetic read/write heads people associate with hard drives. That means the drives look very similar on the surface.

In practice, you’ll find more than one difference between SAS and SATA drives. Keep reading and we’ll walk you through some of Read more…