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<h2>serial attached SCSI (SAS)</h2>
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A computer bus used to transfer data to and from a disk drive or other peripheral device.
SAS is the successor technology to the parallel SCSI interface. It uses a serial data
transfer method and is characterized by a 3 Gbit/s maximum transfer rate and a 7-wire data cable.

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