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Emerging Serial Storage Interfaces: Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)

Du et al., 1996

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16804023959020855342
Author
Du D
Chang T
Hsieh J
Shim S
Wang Y
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Te,; hnical Report at Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota

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Several serial storage interfaces have been proposed for constructing storage systems with high transfer bandwidth, large storage capacity, and fault tolerance feature. Among them, Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) are …
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