EDN

SAS expander switching products facilitate shared storage

Additions to PMC-Sierra's maxSAS storage family, the PM8399 SXP 24x3GSec and PM8398 SXP 36x3GSec SAS switching chips, architected for the fast-growing blade server market. Blade servers are being ...
EDN

SAS expander switching ICs offer secure zoning in blade servers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.— New Serial-Attached-SCSI (SAS) Expander Switching Products Implement Key Zoning and Security Functions to Facilitate Shared Storage and Protect Users against Data Theft and ...
Business Wire

PMC’s 12Gb/s SAS Controllers and Expanders Set Performance and Density Records for Cloud and Tiered Storage

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PMC-Sierra, Inc., (Nasdaq:PMCS) or PMC, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks, today announced availability of its 12Gb/s ...
Business Wire

PMC Enables Density-Optimized Data Center Servers with Industry’s First 12Gb/s SAS Expander Card

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PMC-Sierra, Inc. (PMC®) (Nasdaq:PMCS), the semiconductor and software solutions innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store big data, today ...
CRN

SAS Switch: Boost For Direct-Attached Storage; Bane Of iSCSI SAN

Today, it's still the only one, and the CRN Test Center has had an opportunity to test one in its labs. The first thing that surprised us about the SAS6160 was its small size. For a SAS expander ...
Electronic Design

SAS Expanders Enhance Enclosure Design

Designed for enterprise server and enclosure applications, the VSC7156 24-PHY, VSC7157 36-PHY, and VSC7158 18-PHY Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expanders provide enhanced capabilities including standard ...
TweakTown

iStoragePro iT8SAE 8-bay SAS / SATA Expander

Many years and several bottles of Jägermeister ago I produced a few songs and ran the live soundstage for a couple of local bands. At the time digital recording with computers was in its infant stages ...
Business Insider

Microsemi Announces Industry's First 24G SAS Expanders for Data Center Storage

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Aug. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), today announced its new SXP 24G family of devices, the ...
Computerworld

SAS and SATA: Unparalleled serial interface compatibility

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...
TweakTown

LSI Introduces 12Gb/s SAS MegaRAID Controllers and DataBolt Expanders

LSI has announced the release of their new 12Gb/s SAS MegaRAID controllers and their revolutionary new DataBolt expanders at their annual AIS summit. AIS (Accelerating Innovation Summit) is LSI's ...
Ars Technica

Do I understand SAS expanders correctly?

I have a Dell H200e SAS HBA. I'm currently using it with a disk shelf with 12 drives connected via SFF-8088. I want to move with a regular case with SATA. All the SAS to SATA breakout cables I'm ...