LSI Launches Broad Portfolio of 6GB/s SAS Storage Solutions

LSI Corporation launched the channel new high port count 6Gb/s SATA+SAS (News - Alert) MegaRAID and 3ware RAID controller cards and host bus adapters.

The new storage adapters are capable of supporting both internal storage and external JBOD expansion providing customers with a scalable and reliable solution over the issue of growing storage requirements in application environments. These include cloud computing, video streaming, high-performance computing and general-purpose servers.

Brent Blanchard, director of worldwide channel sales and marketing, LSI said that LSI has provided the industry with a broad portfolio of 6Gb/s SATA+SAS storage solutions with end-to-end interoperability and single vendor support, thereby establishing itself as a comprehensive storage building block supplier to the channel. He added that the new high port count make it easy for our channel partners to deliver scalable, high-density storage solutions that allow end customers to start small and grow storage capacity with minimal added cost and complexity.

The LSI portfolio features the LSISAS2108 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip and 36-port LSISAS2x36 6Gb/s SAS expander IC and supports 512MB DDR2 cache and optional battery backup.

While the new storage adapters range from 4 to 28 ports in a variety of internal and external connector configurations, in models that offer up to 24 internal ports, the adapters allow a single card to support up to 24 drives inside a server via direct connections.

The cards enable system integrators to deliver high-density server storage solutions offering new levels of performance, reliability and availability. The use of a single card within a server chassis helps in lowering hardware costs while reducing power consumption through fewer components. Server I/O slots are also conserved, which provide users with greater system configuration flexibility.

External SAS ports in the adapters support external connectivity for cost-effective storage expansion beyond the server and have been fully validated with LSI 600 series JBODs for external expansion up to 240 devices, enabling growing businesses to address storage capacity requirements of up to 480 terabytes.