Date: 08/05/2011

LSI shipped more than 750,000 storage adapters based on 6Gb/s SAS technology

LSI Corporation has announced it has shipped more than 750,000 storage adapters based on 6Gb/s SAS technology.

"The fact that LSI has already shipped three quarters of a million 6Gb/s SATA+SAS storage adapters - while our competitors have only recently announced availability of 6Gb/s controllers - is testament to the outstanding combination of performance, scalability, reliability and ease-of-use offered by our host bus and RAID adapter solutions," said Kelly Bryant, vice president of marketing, RAID Storage Division, LSI. "As the rapid industry transition to 6Gb/s SAS technology continues, our extensive portfolio of 6Gb/s SAS and SATA solutions will continue to enable our OEM and channel customers to cost-effectively meet the diverse and demanding application requirements of a wide variety of markets."

In their latest worldwide HDD forecast and analysis for 2010-2014, industry analyst firm IDC estimates that disk drives with SAS interfaces will account for over 64 percent of all enterprise disk drive shipments in 2011. IDC further estimates that by 2014, disk drives with SAS interfaces will account for a 72 percent share of all enterprise HDD shipments.