Mini-SAS family of connectors
E749665
The Mini-SAS family of connectors comprises high-density, multi-lane serial interfaces commonly used to connect storage devices and host bus adapters in enterprise and data center environments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mini-SAS family of connectors canonical | 1 |
| Mini-SAS internal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8649932 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mini-SAS family of connectors Context triple: [SFF-8087, isInternalVersionOf, Mini-SAS family of connectors]
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A.
SATA-IO
SATA-IO (Serial ATA International Organization) is an industry consortium that defines and maintains the Serial ATA (SATA) storage interface standards used in computers and consumer electronics.
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B.
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI is a high-speed, point-to-point serial interface standard used primarily in enterprise storage systems to connect servers with hard drives and solid-state drives, offering improved performance, scalability, and reliability over parallel SCSI.
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C.
SATA Tunneling Protocol
SATA Tunneling Protocol (STP) is a transport protocol used in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) environments to enable SATA devices to communicate over SAS infrastructure.
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D.
Serial ATA
Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface standard used primarily to connect storage devices like hard drives and solid-state drives to a motherboard using high-speed serial communication.
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E.
Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP)
Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) is a protocol used in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) systems to transport SCSI commands and data over high-speed serial links between storage devices and controllers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mini-SAS family of connectors Target entity description: The Mini-SAS family of connectors comprises high-density, multi-lane serial interfaces commonly used to connect storage devices and host bus adapters in enterprise and data center environments.
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A.
SATA-IO
SATA-IO (Serial ATA International Organization) is an industry consortium that defines and maintains the Serial ATA (SATA) storage interface standards used in computers and consumer electronics.
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B.
Serial Attached SCSI
Serial Attached SCSI is a high-speed, point-to-point serial interface standard used primarily in enterprise storage systems to connect servers with hard drives and solid-state drives, offering improved performance, scalability, and reliability over parallel SCSI.
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C.
SATA Tunneling Protocol
SATA Tunneling Protocol (STP) is a transport protocol used in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) environments to enable SATA devices to communicate over SAS infrastructure.
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D.
Serial ATA
Serial ATA (SATA) is a computer bus interface standard used primarily to connect storage devices like hard drives and solid-state drives to a motherboard using high-speed serial communication.
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E.
Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP)
Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) is a protocol used in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) systems to transport SCSI commands and data over high-speed serial links between storage devices and controllers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer hardware interface standard
ⓘ
high-density serial connector family ⓘ |
| cableType |
active copper cables
ⓘ
copper cables ⓘ optical cables ⓘ |
| competesWith |
PCI Express cabling solutions
ⓘ
SATA multi-lane connectors ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
RAID controllers
ⓘ
disk enclosures ⓘ host bus adapters ⓘ storage backplanes ⓘ |
| dataLinkType | serial point-to-point links ⓘ |
| developedFor |
high-bandwidth storage interconnects
ⓘ
space-constrained systems ⓘ |
| governedBy | SFF Committee specifications ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
high-density form factor
ⓘ
internal and external connector variants ⓘ multi-lane architecture ⓘ supports SAS protocol ⓘ supports SATA protocol ⓘ supports serial communication ⓘ |
| hasLaneConfiguration |
4-lane links
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8-lane links ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Mini-SAS HD SFF-8611
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mini-SAS HD SFF-8612 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mini-SAS HD SFF-8643 ⓘ Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mini-SAS HD SFF-8654 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mini-SAS SFF-8087 NERFINISHED ⓘ Mini-SAS SFF-8088 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSuccessorTo | legacy parallel SCSI connectors ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
aggregation of multiple serial lanes into a single connector
ⓘ
high-throughput data transfer for storage workloads ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
Serial ATA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Serial Attached SCSI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsTopology |
direct-attach storage
ⓘ
expander-based SAS topologies ⓘ |
| typicalUseEnvironment |
data centers
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enterprise servers ⓘ storage arrays ⓘ |
| usedFor |
connecting storage devices to host bus adapters
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data center storage connectivity ⓘ enterprise storage interconnects ⓘ multi-lane serial data transmission ⓘ |
| usedIn |
JBOD enclosures
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NAS appliances ⓘ SAN storage systems ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mini-SAS family of connectors Description of subject: The Mini-SAS family of connectors comprises high-density, multi-lane serial interfaces commonly used to connect storage devices and host bus adapters in enterprise and data center environments.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mini-SAS internal