LSI has announced that it is sampling a PCIe (PCI Express)-based SSS (solid-state storage) solution to OEM customers. The LSISSS6200 PCIe SSS card provides a high-performance storage solution with enhanced reliability and improved storage density for enterprise servers. For easy system integration and management, the card uses the industry-standard SAS protocol and LSI SAS software. The card is designed to enhance transactional I/O performance for applications such as web serving, data warehousing, data mining, online transaction processing and high-performance computing.
Offering high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden, the small-form-factor PCIe card delivers up to 200,000 4K sequential IOPS (I/Os per second) and up to 150,000 4K random IOPS. It achieves bandwidth of 1,500Mbyte/s sustained sequential I/O and 1,200Mbyte/s sustained random I/O, regardless of read/write mix. Storage capacity of up to 300Gbyte can be configured in a single PCIe slot with no external power requirement. Using industry-standard LSI software drivers, the card provides support for all major operating systems and helps OEM customers achieve a faster time to market.
