HP0-J73 · Question #2
Which drive interconnect technology uses SCSI commands and a serial bus?
The correct answer is A. SAS. SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is the correct answer. It combines two defining characteristics: it transmits data over a high-speed serial bus (replacing the older parallel SCSI bus), and it uses the SCSI command set for communication with storage devices. This makes SAS backward-com
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Which drive interconnect technology uses SCSI commands and a serial bus?
Options
- ASAS
- BiSCSI
- CSDI
- DSATA
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A92% (35)
- B3% (1)
- C5% (2)
Explanation
SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is the correct answer. It combines two defining characteristics: it transmits data over a high-speed serial bus (replacing the older parallel SCSI bus), and it uses the SCSI command set for communication with storage devices. This makes SAS backward-compatible with SCSI semantics while delivering faster speeds and better scalability. iSCSI (B) also uses SCSI commands but encapsulates them over a TCP/IP Ethernet network - not a serial bus in the drive-interconnect sense. SATA (D) uses a serial bus but uses ATA commands, not SCSI commands, making it a distinct protocol family. SDI (C) is not a recognized standard drive interconnect technology and is a distractor.
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