SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- INTEL DEVELOPER
FORUM, LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced it is
demonstrating its next-generation 12Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC)
technology this week, September
13-15, at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco.
The IDF demonstration showcases a single 8-port 12Gb/s SAS ROC
IC achieving over 1.2 million IOPS (I/O operations per second)
running small block sequential reads/writes in a PCI Express® 2.0
direct-attached storage configuration connected to eight 6Gb/s
Seagate® SAS 2.5-inch hard disk drives.
Integrating the latest enhancements in SAS and PCI Express
technology, as well as innovative LSI hardware acceleration
engines, the LSI SAS ROC is designed to provide the I/O performance
required to take full advantage of the performance benefits of
enterprise-class solid-state drives (SSDs) and server platforms
based on the forthcoming PCI Express 3.0 specification.
"Solid-state drive performance coupled with the approaching
industry transition to PCI Express 3.0-based server platforms is
driving the need for 12Gb/s SAS connectivity," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president and general
manager, RAID Storage Division, LSI. "12Gb/s SAS will enable IT
administrators to maximize their investments in existing
infrastructure while meeting the storage demands of I/O-intensive
applications, cloud datacenters and virtualized server
environments."
Based on LSI's fourth-generation SAS architecture, the 12Gb/s
SAS ROC delivers a 57 percent improvement in IOPS performance and a
45 percent increase in I/O throughput compared to the
previous-generation 6Gb/s SAS ROC. To achieve one million IOPS
using the previous-generation product would have required multiple
SAS ROCs and twelve hard disk drives, resulting in higher hardware
acquisition costs and increased power, cooling and space
requirements. Integration of the 12Gb/s SAS ROC into
next-generation PCI Express 3.0-based systems is expected to
deliver even higher performance levels.
"LSI has been a recognized contributor to the development and
broad market adoption of SAS infrastructure," said Marty Czekalski, vice president, SCSI Trade
Association and Emerging Architecture program manager, Seagate
Technology. "The SCSI Trade Association is excited to see member
companies such as LSI publicly demonstrating early prototypes of
12Gb/s SAS silicon. Early public demonstration is a key technology
milestone and helps lay the foundation for the initial 12Gb/s SAS
Plugfest in mid-2012."
According to industry estimates, 12Gb/s SAS market adoption will
begin with the release of individual SAS components and devices,
and gain momentum as OEMs begin production-volume shipments of
12Gb/s SAS-enabled servers and external storage systems. Volume
shipments of 12Gb/s SAS-enabled servers is estimated to occur by
early 2013, followed by the availability of external storage
systems by mid-to-late 2013.
Since the inception of SAS, LSI has delivered an
industry-leading portfolio of products including SAS ROC,
controller and expander ICs, host bus adapters, MegaRAID® and
3ware® RAID controllers, 6Gb/s SAS switches, advanced software
options and WarpDrive™ SLP-300 solid-state storage
acceleration cards.
To learn more about the LSI 12Gb/s SAS ROC and to see the
million IOPS performance demonstration, please visit LSI booth #819
at IDF 2011.
More information on the complete LSI SAS portfolio is available
at www.lsi.com/sas.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative
silicon 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 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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