Date: 20/01/2009

Super Micro Computer selects LSI's RAID-on-Chip for its enterprise-server platforms

Super Micro Computer has selected LSI 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) and MegaRAID products for their next-generation enterprise-server platforms.

"LSI has proven itself as a SAS and RAID technology leader year after year, technology generation after generation," said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. "We are committed to providing our customers with superior product innovations and uncompromising quality. We rely on partners such as LSI to provide robust and highly interoperable underlying technologies to ensure a smooth transition to 6Gb/s SAS-based server platforms."

"As a leading provider of SAS technologies, our validation across the industry's broadest spectrum of OEM platforms is unmatched, allowing us to leverage this experience in each new generation of solutions," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president, Storage Components Group, LSI. "As the market readies for the transition to 6Gb/s SAS technology, LSI is the vendor of choice among many of the world's leading server OEMs to enable their next-generation SAS-based systems."

The LSI 6Gb/s SAS ROC IC (SAS2108) and LSI MegaRAID 6Gb/s SAS RAID adapters are now sampling to OEMs worldwide.