New SATA interposer card speeds OEM time-to-market for supporting small
form factor SATA drives in enterprise storage systems
MILPITAS, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today introduced the industry's first small form factor Serial
ATA (SATA) interposer card. The new interposer card provides OEMs with a
time-to- market advantage for implementing 2.5-inch SATA drives in
enterprise-class storage arrays, including SAS and Fibre Channel-SATA
(FC-SATA) infrastructures.
The new SS9135 SATA interposer card offers OEMs a turnkey board
solution that is completely designed and assembled ahead of time, resulting
in significant cost, engineering and manufacturing savings. With these
freed resources, systems OEMs can more rapidly integrate low-cost,
high-capacity 2.5-inch SATA drives in enterprise systems for near-line and
tiered-storage applications.
"Enterprise storage users have come to rely heavily on the cost and
capacity benefits provided by 3.5-inch SATA drives," said Greg Schulz,
founder and senior analyst, The StorageIO Group. "As the industry begins to
adopt smaller form factor drives, it's essential that users continue to
have the option of leveraging SATA hard drives with active-active
interfaces for resiliency in their infrastructure. With its new SS9135
interposer card, LSI is making this a reality and providing OEMs with an
opportunity to easily integrate 2.5-inch SATA drives into enterprise
systems with the right enterprise-class features including active-active
access."
The new SS9135 card is based on the fourth-generation SS1350
Active-Active Multiplexer (AAMUX(R)) device from LSI, delivering
enterprise-class reliability, manageability and performance features that
complement mainstream SATA hard drives. AAMUX technology enables
single-ported SATA drives to connect like native dual-ported drives for use
in enterprise storage systems using SAS expanders supporting the SATA
tunneling protocol (SAS-STP), and in systems using FC-to-SATA routers. The
SS1350 device brings true active-active multiplexing to the SATA drive,
resulting in much higher performance and reduced system development costs.
The SS1350 is a smaller form factor package, derived from the currently
shipping SS1320, that enables a vertical interposer card to be implemented
into a 2.5-inch drive tray. The SS1350 device is only available as a part
of the turnkey SS9135 board solution.
"Now more than ever, end users are looking for ways to optimize power
and cooling efficiencies in their storage systems, while also looking to
increase performance and capacity in a given amount of rack space," said
Dan Roehrich, vice president of marketing, Storage Components Group,
Network and Storage Products Group, LSI. "These demands are giving way to
the emergence of small form factor drives for enterprise storage systems.
With our new SATA interposer card we are easing this transition by
providing system OEMs with a fully tested and interoperable turnkey
solution that enables easy deployment of 2.5-inch SATA drives in various
enterprise infrastructures."
The SS9135 card brings a number of new management features to SATA
drives to further enhance their operation in SAS systems. These features
include drive power control, PHY control, and extensive diagnostics.
Sample pricing for the SS9135 SATA interposer solution is $41 and
pricing is less than $30 for storage system OEM volume quantities. The
SS9135 design can be customized as needed to adapt to the specific storage
OEM drive tray.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative
silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which
seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The
company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including
custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are
trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the
Storage, Networking and Consumer markets. More information is available at
http://www.lsi.com.
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