LSI launches high-performance 6Gb/s SAS host bus adapters

MILPITAS, USA: LSI Corp. has announced the availability of a new family of high-performance SATA+SAS host bus adapters (HBAs) based on 6Gb/s SAS technology.

The LSI SAS 9200 series HBAs, based on the LSISAS2008 6Gb/s SAS controller IC, offer new levels of performance and scalability for internal and external direct-attached storage deployments using SATA and SAS disk drives.

The LSI SAS 9200 series adapters provide both high bandwidth and high I/O transaction processing and the flexibility to connect to 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA and SAS hard drives or solid-state drives. The adapters are designed to support applications ranging from email, OLTP and streaming video to data center workloads such as Web hosting and cloud computing.

The new family of HBAs include the LSI SAS 9211-4i, LSI SAS 9211-8i and the LSI SAS 9200-8e. The adapters more than double the performance of the previous generation SATA+SAS HBAs, delivering throughput rates of up to 2.6GB/s in sequential reads, 3.0GB/s in sequential writes and up to 317,000 IOPs (input/output operations per second) performance.

The SAS 9200 series adapters also support nearly twice the number of SATA and SAS devices as the previous-generation products. The SAS 9211-4i (4-port) and SAS 9211-8i (8-port) models provide internal storage connections with support for up to 256 SATA and SAS physical devices.

The SAS 9200-8e (8-port) is designed for external storage connections and supports up to 512 SATA and SAS devices. Utilizing external RAID and JBOD enclosures, the adapter enables growing businesses to address storage capacity requirements of up to one petabyte.

Data availability is also enhanced with the addition of RAID 10 support. Using LSI Integrated RAID, a low-cost, hardware RAID solution within MegaRAID Storage Manager, channel partners can configure highly reliable storage system environments with optional RAID 0, 1, 1E and RAID 10 data protection levels.