SAS may refer to any of the following:

  1. Short for Serial Attached SCSI, SAS is a serial transmission replacement for the parallel SCSI. SAS is an improvement of traditional SCSI that supports a maximum of 128 simultaneous devices at transmission speeds of 3.0 Gb/s. SAS devices also have two data ports and can communicate with both SCSI and SATA.

  2. Short for Standalone Server, SAS is a server that does not rely on any other servers or services.

Computer acronyms, Hardware terms, Server, Standalone