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Author: Rachelle Trent, SAS Product Manager,
PMC-Sierra

SAS Provides Scalability

• Capacity: maximum 16K devices
• Expanders enable capacity scalability
• Bandwidth: in multiples of 3Gb/s
• Wide links provide bandwidth aggregation
• Increased storage capacity via cascaded JBODs

Author: Sam Barnett, Product Line Manager, SAS and SATA Storage Networking Products, Storage Products Division,
Vitesse

As connectivity and storage needs of the world business community continue to expand, high-performance, low-cost storage infrastructures and new storage networking technologies are required. Enter Serial Attached SCSI - its two tiered model - offering simultaneous support of both enterprise-class (high performance, high transaction I/O and extreme reliability) and desktop-class (high density with low cost) storage facilities -- are revolutionizing the way storage systems are designed and ultimately deployed.

Author: Don Jeanette, Senior Manager, Product Marketing
Fujitsu CPA

Form Factor Display:

• 2.5", 3.5" Form Factors to fit your requirements
• High capacity and speed for enterprise applications (3.5" 15K)
• High capacity and cost effective performance (3.5" 10K)
• Performance and density for mission-critical data (2.5" 10K)
• Enclosures available for any form factor, spindle speed and capacity
• Enabling blade servers

Author: David So, Strategic Marketing Manager
LSI Logic

LSI coordinated a live, multi-vendor demonstration highlighting the performance benefits of SAS technology in a Microsoft SQL Server environment. The key messages for this demo were that SAS offers:

• Enterprise-level performance up to 2.4GB/s full duplex
• Enterprise-level capacity of over 16K targets
• Lower total cost of ownership
• An ideal solution for MS SQL Server data warehousing environments

Author: Linus Wong, Director, Strategic Marketing,
Adaptec

With its diverse requirements for high-performance storage for primary, mission-critical data and lower cost, higher capacity storage for secondary data, tiered storage has often required completely different primary and secondary storage systems. Building a tiered storage solution on a SAS infrastructure solves this problem, by allowing a single storage infrastructure to support both primary and secondary storage.

Author: Jay Neer, Corporate Strategic Product Manager,
Molex

The SAS Interconnect Infrastructure table displayed examples of the new connectors and cables implemented in the recent SAS 1.1 release. The new Mini SAS connectors developed by Molex for the standard are now appearing in SAS products from a number of companies. This interface provides more port density on host boards and enables higher bandwidth capability for transmitting data.

The internal Mini SAS is documented in the SFF Committee SFF-8087 Specification. This low-profile SMT connector provides four times the port density on host boards compared to the connector released in SAS 1.0. The AMCC controller card on display implemented four Mini SAS 4i connectors on a full size PCI card similar to the upper diagram on the sign.