Date: 24/12/2009

Dual-core 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip IC sample shipment from LSI

LSI has announced that it is sampling the LSISAS2208, a new dual-core 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) IC to OEM customers that deliver performance levels of up to 600,000 input-output operations per second (IOPS), allowing server platforms to flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) for applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, databases, Web serving and business intelligence.

LSISAS2208 ROC also supports PCI Express 3.0 and SAS technologies.

The LSISAS2208 ROC integrates a 72-bit DDR3-1333 SDRAM interface, hardware acceleration engines and a high-performance dual-core 800 MHz PowerPC processor for optimized RAID performance. In addition, the LSISAS2208 ROC incorporates enhancements such as single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for high performance in virtualized environments, improved system performance and data security, and more finely-tuned quality of service (QoS).

"Performance is becoming more critical in today's enterprise environments, especially as more enterprise-class solid-state drives are deployed," said Jeff Janukowicz, Research Manager, Hard Disk Drive Components and Solid State Drives at IDC. "Devices such as the next-generation LSI ROC, coupled with PCI Express 3.0-based server platforms, are designed to maximize the performance benefits of flash storage."

"From server generation to server generation, leading OEMs have relied on the LSI SAS portfolio to meet their storage demands," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, Storage Components Division, LSI. "As the industry now begins to look towards the PCI Express 3.0 wave of server platforms, the new LSISAS2208 ROC will enable OEMs to take advantage of the performance capabilities offered by the new specification, once again demonstrating LSI's ability to help keep our customers at the forefront of industry inflection points."

For more details visit www.lsi.com