ChannelInsider.com: Storage Controllers Improve Performance Without Full System Upgrade
Author: Jessica Davis
Looking to help customers and their VARs do more with less, LSI is releasing a new family of drop-in controllers that can be added to existing equipment to enable faster transfer speeds to stored data, but without upgrading entire systems.
The new high-performance MegaRAID SATA+SAS RAID controller cards are based on 6Gb/s SAS technology – an improvement from previous generations that only allowed 3Gb/s. LSI says the MegaRAID 9200 series controllers provide small to midsize enterprises with high levels of RAID performance and scalability for internal and external storage.
That’s because they double the data transfer rate of their predecessor 3Gb/s devices, providing up to 2.85GB/s in sequential reads and 1.85GB/s in sequential writes, according to LSI’s internal testing of the devices.
“The idea here is the investment the reseller has made in the existing technology doesn’t go away,” says Suresh Panikar, senior manager, worldwide channel marketing at LSI. “If they have a need for higher performance they can add one of the 6Gb/s-based controllers. It is backward compatible.”
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