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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.

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  • 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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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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