A carefully designed balance of data protection and network performance, LSI™ MegaRAID® controllers delivers optimized transactional I/O performance to any Pogo Linux Accelerated Server. Get cost-effective, high-performance, high-capacity 6Gb/s solutions that quickly and reliably deliver core business data to a broad range of cloud, security and hosted services.
Experience significant performance improvements for 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s system environments. Sustained data transfer rates and high sequential bandwidth to meet processing requirements of digital media, video and imaging workloads.
Key Features
• 6Gb/s SAS+SATA Advantage– LSISAS2208 Dual-Core SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) with 800MHz PowerPC®
• Superior Performance – 1GB DDR3 Cache Memory (1333 MHz)
• Feature – 8-ports with both 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s connectivity
• Data Management – Comprehensive GUI and CLI RAID management
• Device Flexibility – Connect up to 128 SAS+SATA devices
Benefits
• Unmatched RAID 5 and RAID 6 streaming bandwidth performance
• Up to 200,000 measured IOPS - or up to 465,000 when used with MegaRAID FastPath
• Up to 25-35% improvement in 3Gb/s SATA
• Up to 67% improvement in RAID 5/RAID 6 sequential writes over existing
industry-leading LSI 6Gb/s controller
Advanced SSD Software Add-ons
Pogo Linux Accelerated Server configured with MegaRAID® controllers offer advanced SSD software acceleration options. Enhance the performance of an HDD volume, or deploy a cost-optimized SSD storage array strategy.
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MegaRAID® CacheCade™
Leverage SSDs in front of an HDD array for a secondary tier of high-performance cache. Experience reduced I/O latency for data-heavy workloads without adding drives. Learn more >> |
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MegaRAID® FastPath™
Connect SSDs to MegaRAID® controllers for enhanced I/O acceleration. Get up to 3x read/write improvement in Pogo Linux systems with MegaRAID® FastPath™ enabled. Learn more >> |
Workloads
The superior read/write performance of the MegaRAID® controller make it ideally suited for a broad range of application workloads - from data center applications, such as web and database servers, to more compute-intensive applications, such as cloud computing and clustered systems used with HPC systems.
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Product Brief – MegaRAID® 6Gb/s SAS+SATA Controller™
