LSI demonstrates 1million IOPS using 6Gb/s SAS technology

In a laboratory demonstration, LSI has achieved 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) from server to a Serial attached SCSI (SAS) storage device. Demo involved a white box server powered by three LSISAS2108 6Gb/s SAS RAID-On-Chip devices connected to twelve 6Gb/s SAS 2.5-inch hard disk drives. The demonstration showcases execution of I/O throughput in a Direct-attached storage (DAS) environment at 6Gb/s speed.

LSI claims, it is the first company to achieve more than 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) in a 6Gb/s SAS performance demonstration running on a single server.

Dave Reinsel, group vice president of storage and semiconductor research at IDC said, "This level of performance and scalability paves the way for increased DAS adoption in data center environments while potentially lowering costs and energy consumption."

"SAS has the scalability and performance that we need in the data center environment," said Chris Lionetti, senior systems engineer, Microsoft Corporation. "SAS 2.5-inch drives deliver greater density and significant power reductions, which translate to critical cost savings in the data center."