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LSI Corporation is a leading provider of innovative silicon,
systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring
people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad
portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product
ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known
brands to power leading solutions in the Storage, Networking and Mobility
markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
See also:-
LSI
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- Editor's comments:- January 2010 -
LSI has
announced
its intentions to enter the
PCIe SSD
accelerator market - with new products - which will sample in Q2 2010.
LSI is approximately the 163rd company to enter the
SSD market (not counting
SSD SoC makers - which
would push the score to about 185).
Partly LSI's move is due to a
strong suction effect from the
SSD market bubble -
and partly an inevitable step given that the high end of the
RAID controller market
is going to disappear.
There's little point in spending money aggregating
IOPS in an
array of hard disks -
if the result costs more, is slower and is less
reliable to
operate.
In Q4 2009 - PCIe was the #1 most popular form factor
for SSD related searches. (Higher than than for
2.5" SSDs.) In
the same quarter the single most popular company profile viewed by readers
was PCIe SSD evangelist
Fusion-io. Dozens of
oems have already entered this market - thereby preparing the educational
framework for user acceptance of this technology.
LSI - recent SSD milestones from
30 Years of
SSD Market History
In March 2009 -
LSI announced better
support for flash SSDs
in the latest update to its
MegaRAID
SAS adapters. LSI calls this new feature SSD Guard - which can anticipate
some types of flash SSD failures in
RAID 0 configurations
and starts rebuilding data on a spare unit.
In December 2009 - LSI announced it is
sampling
the LSISAS2208 dual-core 6Gb/s
SAS
RAID-on-Chip
IC to OEM customers. It's
intended to support the forthcoming PCIe 3.0 specification, currently under
development and provide performance levels that meet the needs of
next-generation server platforms based on
flash SSD storage.
The new LSI SAS ROC will deliver performance levels of up to 600,000 IOPS.
In January 2010 -
LSI and
Seagate
announced
they have collaborated on designing
PCIe SSDs for the
enterprise accelerator market which will sample in Q2 2010. |
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| There
are
hundreds
of articles about SSDs on StorageSearch.com |
Here, below, are some
examples.
- RAM Cache
Ratios in flash SSDs - it's important to know the underlying RAM cache
architecture - even if you're happy with the R/W and IOPS performance.
- 2010 - 1st Fizz
in the SSD Bubble? - even the dogs in the street know this is going to be a
multibillion dollar market. Greed will play as big a part as technology in
shaping the
SSD year ahead.
- the pros and cons of
using SSD ASAPs - auto tuning SSD appliances are a new category of SSD
which entered the market in the 2nd half of 2009 to accelerate servers without
needing human tune-ups. How can you tell if they are right for you? And how
well do they work?
- the Problem
with Write IOPS - in flash SSDs - long established as a useful performance
modeling metric - this article explains why some specs are exaggerated when
applied to flash SSDs - or predict the wrong results for many common
applications.
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