SAS Platform Leadership
6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), at times mistakenly referred to as "SAS 2.0 or SAS-2", is the evolutionary step entering market adoption in 2009 as ecosystem suppliers transition products from 3Gb/s SAS to the next-generation technology. SAS retains SCSI's long-established advantages, permits connectivity for Serial ATA (SATA) devices, and provides a roadmap forward to meet the demands of escalating marketplace requirements.
The marketplace name for next-generation SAS is "6Gb/s SAS" while "SAS 2.0" and "SAS-2" nomenclature each refers to the actual technology specification, as managed by the T10 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee on Information Technolo0gy Standards (INCITS). LSI's John Lohmeyer chairs the T10 committee activity – a measure of LSI's deep commitment to helping drive industry standards.
Benefits of the SAS 2.0 specification will include greater scalability, increased bandwidth per connection and other enhanced features while maintaining legacy support for both the 3Gb/s SAS generation and parallel SCSI generations.
Click here to read the article "The Universal Enterprise Storage Connection" by Harry Mason, Director - Industry Marketing, LSI, and President of the SCSI Trade Association.
The marketplace name for next-generation SAS is "6Gb/s SAS" while "SAS 2.0" and "SAS-2" nomenclature each refers to the actual technology specification, as managed by the T10 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee on Information Technolo0gy Standards (INCITS). LSI's John Lohmeyer chairs the T10 committee activity – a measure of LSI's deep commitment to helping drive industry standards.
Benefits of the SAS 2.0 specification will include greater scalability, increased bandwidth per connection and other enhanced features while maintaining legacy support for both the 3Gb/s SAS generation and parallel SCSI generations.
Click here to read the article "The Universal Enterprise Storage Connection" by Harry Mason, Director - Industry Marketing, LSI, and President of the SCSI Trade Association.
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6Gb/s SAS: Why, Where and When |
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Enterprise IT professionals will face their next business-critical technology decision as the SAS storage interface transitions from today’s 3Gb/s standard to 6Gb/s. Achieving a properly timed, interoperable and cost-effective 6Gb/s solution depends upon understanding how the transition will occur, when the ecosystem will evolve and best-practice usage models. LSI is at the forefront of this discussion.
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LSI Storage DNA and Role-Shaping Industry Standards |
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LSI is uniquely positioned to both understand, and help solve today’s business-critical trends of virtualization, green IT, 6Gb/s SAS transition, RAID deployment, and data security/encryption. With no end in sight for growth in digital content, IT developers and end customers must carefully align with industry leaders proven to add long-term value. LSI does just that. Learn More About SAS 2.0
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Direct Attached and Shared Storage Solutions: MegaRAID® and the Simplicity-based Storage System |
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With nearly three decades of demonstrated success, LSI enables every major server and workstation OEM with protocol solutions, and eight of the top 10 OEMs with RAID technology. Achieving a successful SAS transition requires robust interoperability testing, server shipments in production volumes and a complete ecosystem rather than simply point-solution products, as well as awareness of tiered storage strategies (SAS, SAS/SATA).
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Networked Storage Solutions and Management Software |
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LSI is the world’s leading storage OEM building block supplier, enabling the storage area network (SAN) with RAID sub-systems and system management software across a full spectrum of interface protocols: Infiniband, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and SAS. A flexible business model permits an OEM to optimize its engagement to best serve the end customer requirements.
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Hard Disk Drive Components and Custom Silicon Solutions |
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LSI plays a primary role helping shape industry standards, and in bringing innovative technology advances to market as we invest for growth and storage leadership. One example which underlines LSI’s role is how we drive the marketplace conversation around the “how, when and why” regarding the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface transition from 3Gb/s current state to the next-generation 6Gb/s node.
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