PMC-Sierra and Seagate Achieve 6Gb SAS Interoperability

PMC-Sierra, Inc. and Seagate Technology announced the companies achieved interoperability between
PMC-Sierra’s end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate’s early
development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). This successful
demonstration of 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interoperability
provides server and storage system equipment manufacturers with an
end-to-end system architecture that delivers new levels of
scalability, availability and reliability.

Interoperability testing demonstrated 6Gb/s line rate traffic
exchanges between Seagate’s early development 6Gb/s SAS HDDs and
PMC-Sierra’s 6Gb/s SAS chipsets, which includes the Tachyon SPC
8x6G SAS protocol controller, the SRC 8x6G RAID-on-Chip controller and
maxSAS SXP 36/24x6GSec expander switches.

"As a leading provider of enterprise storage system solutions for
networked and server storage applications, PMC-Sierra is focused on
ensuring that fully interoperable components are available to reduce
time-to-market for 6Gb/s SAS/SATA systems," said Travis Karr, vice
president of marketing for PMC-Sierra’s Enterprise Storage Division.
"This achievement provides server and storage system OEMs with the
confidence that PMC-Sierra and Seagate products will work together
seamlessly in a SAS-2 eco-system."

"Seagate’s Serial Attached SCSI enterprise customers demand the
highest levels of reliability and performance along with the latest
technology in our products," said Henry Fabian, executive director of
Seagate’s Enterprise Product Marketing. "By ensuring interoperability
with other technology leaders like PMC-Sierra, Seagate is leading the
way with 6Gb/s SAS to enable our customers to benefit from fully
interoperable system solutions in the future."

PMC-Sierra, Inc.

Seagate Technology