LSI Debuts 6-Gig SAS Solutions

By Greg McNevin

October 16, 2008: At Storage Networking World this week LSI has showcased the industry’s first 6-Gig SAS solution for external storage applications, significantly extending its SAS solution portfolio.

The company says its new 6Gb/s SAS-to-SATA bridge cards and a 16-port SAS storage processor enable SAS capabilities to be seamlessly added to existing SATA disk drives.

It says that the new cards enhance SATA drives with essential enterprise-class features, and provide OEMs with a complete turnkey solution for interconnecting low-cost, high capacity SATA drives into enterprise storage solutions – and do so without sacrificing reliability, manageability or data availability.

“The cost and capacity benefits of SATA drives are well known, but deployment in enterprise storage environments has been limited due to scaling and reliability concerns,” said Steve Fingerhut, senior director of marketing for LSI’s Storage Components Group.

“With today’s announcement, LSI is supplying OEMs with a first-to-market solution for increasing storage system capacity at a lower cost, using OEM customers’ robust, scalable SAS infrastructure.”

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