Supermicro, one of the largest manufacturers of “white box” servers sold by smaller server vendors, has just announced the availability of several products supporting the new SAS 2.0 standard, increasing the transfer speed from 3.0 to 6.0 Gbps.
The new standard is supported on several complete systems, five server motherboards, two blade systems, and a number of universal I/O cards that can be used in several Supermicro servers:
For flexible storage applications, Supermicro’s new Universal I/O (UIO) add-on controller cards support eight internal 6Gb/s SAS ports and RAID functionalities. With a PCI Express 2.0 host interface and intelligent architecture, these controllers double the data transfer rates of their 3Gb/s predecessors and are designed to easily integrate with existing 3Gb/s SATA and SAS infrastructures for improved performance and scalability.
The controllers are based on LSI chipsets; LSI was one of the first vendors to announce their SAS 2.0 chipsets. Supermicro has dedicated a special webpage to their SAS 2.0 products; feel free to click through it for more information.
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