Seagate to Demo 12Gb SAS SSDs

Seagate Technology LLC will demonstrate a variety of technologies at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase aimed at improving the performance of servers, datacenters and cloud computing applications, including the first public demonstration of solid-state drives operating at 12 gigabits per second.

Seagate will show Pulsar.2 solid-state drives working with the new 12Gb/s SAS standard at the showcase, taking place at the Hyatt Hotel in Santa Clara, CA on May 9, 2012.

The new standard doubles the data throughput of industry-standard drives equipped with the enhanced SAS interface, enabling faster server and storage solutions. The enhanced standard also maintains the data integrity, scalability, serviceability, and hot swappable protocol feature set that enterprises depend on to safeguard data, minimize costly downtime, and ensure infrastructures keep up with growing storage demands.

Faster data throughput paves the way for drives and storage systems that can deliver larger amounts of data more rapidly to servers and processors. This provides improved overall performance for cloud services and other enterprise applications throughout all tiers of data storage. Seagate continues to drive the industry in developing the standard in the INCITS T10 Committee and is collaborating with other STA members to bring it to market.

While Seagate will first demonstrate the technology on its solid-state drives to optimize the high performance benefits of SSDs, the 12Gb/s SAS standard is also compatible with high-performance and high-capacity hard disk drives. These can be seamlessly integrated within existing infrastructures using 6Gb/s SAS because the new faster SAS standard is backwards compatible with all previous generations of SAS speeds. Seagate’s implementation of 12Gb/s SAS is compatible with controllers and other technologies from PMC-Sierra and LSI, two HBA and expander vendors.

The 12Gb/s SAS standard is currently stable and expected to be finalized by the end of the year. Products based on the 12Gb/s standard will start to hit in the market in 2013 with general availability in the second half of the year.

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At SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase