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choosing a new hard drive for your computer used to be a pretty large production between fiddling with jumpers master/slave cable select yeah dealing with weird settings and finding somewhere to put those ugly ribbon cables it wasn't exactly straightforward for the average user nowadays though the SATA interface has made things simple almost to the point of making expanding your storage a plug-and-play experience can you pick a capacity and speed you connect the cables in BAM more space for your Steam library or your private videos but while you were combing through all those pages of hard drives and SSDs you might have noticed an option to look at something called that fast drive instead of SATA and being the intrepid shopper that you are you clicked on it wondering if this strange exotic interface could give you faster load times in battlefront or whatever then you quickly retreated after experiencing the sticker shock so what is this SAS anyway and why the heck is it so much more expensive than SATA and could it be worth it for your personal computer alright so let's go back to the beginning SAS stands for serial Attached scuzzy which might sound familiar to you as there's an older version called parallel scuzzy and that was a popular choice for things like cd-rom drives way back in the day modern SAS connectors however can be difficult to find on consumer motherboards even though they look extremely similar to SATA in fact SATA drives will work on a SAS controller so the what is the difference exactly well SAS can perform significantly faster than SATA for a number of reasons one of which is the bus or the or the communication method itself the latest revision of SAS revision 3 if you're keeping score at home supports up to 12 gigabit per second transfer speeds that's twice as fast as SATA 3 with speeds of over 22 gigabit per second expected in the year 2017 SAS also has the advantage of being full duplex meaning that a SAS Drive can send and receive data at the full speed at the same time SATA drives on the other hand can only deal with full speed data in one direction at a time and if you're interested in a more traditional mechanical hard drive instead of an SSD SAS drives often feature much faster rotational speeds to improve performance it's actually pretty easy to find 15,000 rpm SAS drives which is over twice as fast as your typical SATA hard disk would spin but then if SAS is so great then why don't people who build you know even very high-end home PCs use it much well it's actually targeted more at the server market for companies that need very reliable storage that many many people are accessing at once so it's got more durable construction and higher throughput and support for a large number of drives on one controller making SAS a popular choice for high-capacity servers that need to be online 24/7 such as for larger businesses or company websites or whatever else unfortunately as I've mentioned before these additional capabilities mean that SAS drives are typically much more expensive per gigabyte than SATA but I mean let's say you could get your hands on a SAS capable motherboard like we did recently in this video would the extra performance then be worth it well actually the answer is unless you're doing some really weird stuff with your personal gaming rig probably not the SAS protocol is optimized like I said for when many users are connected to the machine accessing data at once meaning you probably wouldn't see much real-world benefit if any at all but I guess it could be an interesting choice for like a home database server something like that which probably probably you aren't doing speaking of things you probably aren't doing if you aren't using Squarespace there's a good chance you aren't building yourself a simple powerful beautiful website they've got 24/7 tech support via live chat and email and you can get yourself set up with a Squarespace site with all the tools for managing and 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