Byte and Switch: LSI Launches Next Generation RAID Controllers
Author: Michael Brandenburg
LSI Corporation unleashed their newest generation of RAID controller cards, the first in their lineup to feature 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology. The MegaRAID 9200 series cards support a mix of SATA, SAS and solid-state drives (SSDs). For the first time, LSI's SafeStore Encryption Services provides support for self-encrypting drives (SEDs). The MegaRAID 9200 series features PCIe with four and eight port options, offering a mix of external and internal connections.
With transfer rates of up to 2.88 GB/s in sequential reads and 1.87 GB/s in sequential writes, LSI is aiming these new controllers at I/O intensive data center applications such as email and database servers as well as other high-end applications like streaming video and Online transaction processing (OLTP).
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