Storage Firsts.....(storage Magazine April 2006)

Adaptec Snap Server 500 series: First NAS platform to support both Serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and SATA disk drives. The Snap Server 500 models are also the first departmental NAS devices to be powered by the 64-bit AMD Opteron processor. Adaptec's SANbloc S50 SAS JBOD serves as the universal SAS/ SATA expansion array for Snap Server 520 and 550, scaling up to 43.2TB of SATA capacity. Pricing starts at $2/GB.