Maxtor and LSI Logic Push SAS Adoption
Maxtor and LSI Logic Push SAS Adoption
December 15, 2005: Having completed compatibility testing of their its Atlas Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive family with LSI Logic’s SAS Host Bus Adapters, expanders, RAID controllers and ASIC initiators, Maxtor and LSI Logic have teamed up to drive SAS adoption.
The announcement comes a week after Maxtor and Adaptec declared their SAS partnership push.
Maxtor’s country manager for Australia and New Zealand, Edward Tien says that “Maxtor and LSI Logic have worked on bringing fully tested SAS products to market so resellers can take advantage of the benefits of the serial architecture.”
With hard drive connectivity for both SAS and SATA, Harry Mason, director of industry marketing, LSI Logic and president of the SCSI Trade Association says that the SAS architecture provides flexibility and scalability for tailored solutions.
Brian Garrett, an analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group has also indicated his support for the SAS push. "As the follow-on to the mature and widely deployed parallel SCSI interface, SAS brings a number of benefits to the table that resellers can take advantage of in designing solutions," says Garrett. "SAS offers 3Gb interface speeds, full-duplex, dual-port disk drives, scalable bandwidth via wide ports and point-to-point connectivity for better fault isolation as well as simplified cabling and cooling, all while leveraging the SCSI command set to maintain compatibility with existing SCSI infrastructures."
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