MILPITAS, Calif., Dec. 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today announced that the LSI™ WarpDrive™ SLP-300 PCI
Express® solid-state storage card has won Electronic Design's Best
Electronic Design award for 2010 in the Computers – Solid State
Storage category.
The LSI WarpDrive card was selected for the award by the
editorial staff of Electronic Design based on the card's ability to
push the boundaries of application performance and storage density
by delivering the I/O performance of hundreds of hard disk drives
while consuming less than 25 watts of power.
"In today's enterprise storage environments, the importance of
high performance, capacity and energy efficiency cannot be
overstated, which is why the LSI WarpDrive card was a natural
selection for a 2010 Best Electronic Design award," said
Bill Wong, technology editor,
Electronic Design. "The WarpDrive card combines these attributes in
a plug and play design to offer customers an innovative solution to
accelerate a broad scope of applications. The product is an example
of LSI's engineering excellence and we congratulate them on winning
the award."
The low-profile, half-length WarpDrive card plugs into a
standard 8 lane PCIe Gen 2.0 server slot and is designed to deliver
high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden. It offers
system builders, system integrators and end customers a
cost-effective, plug-and-play solution for maximizing the
transactional I/O performance of applications such as Web serving,
data warehousing, data mining, professional video and
high-performance computing.
A WarpDrive card can sustain up to 1,400MB/s of throughput, with
reliable and consistent performance across both sequential and
random reads and writes. It delivers up to 240,000 4K read IOPS and
up to 200,000 4K write IOPS, with access latency of less than 50
microseconds. To achieve equal performance on a write IOPS basis
utilizing hard disk drives would require over 400 drives, 36U of
rack space and consume more than 300 times the power.
"The WarpDrive card represents the next evolution in storage
architectures for market segments requiring extreme performance,"
said Steve Fingerhut, senior
director of marketing, Storage Components Division, LSI. "The
WarpDrive card delivers exceptional performance, enhanced
reliability and ease of use while helping to reduce customers'
operational and capital expenditures. We're honored that the
product has been recognized with a Best Electronic Design award for
2010."
The WarpDrive acceleration card is the latest addition to the
comprehensive LSI portfolio of storage building block solutions
available in the channel, including MegaRAID® and 3ware® RAID
controllers, host bus adapters, SAS switches,
JBOD enclosures, the CTS2600 family of configurable
storage components and advanced software options.
Additional information about the 2010 Best Electronic Design
awards can be found in Electronic Design's annual Best
Electronic Design issue published December
9, or online at www.electronicdesign.com
The LSI WarpDrive card is available through the LSI worldwide
network of distributors, system integrators, system builders and
VARs. Additional information is available at
www.lsi.com/storage.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative
silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products
which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content
together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and
services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters,
systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known
brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking
markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
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of their respective companies.
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