LSI PCIe SSD Card Offered With Supermicro Servers

LSI Corporation announced that the LSI WarpDrive SLP-300 acceleration card, a PCIe-based solid-state storage solution for application acceleration, is now available with select Super Micro Computer, Inc.‘s server solutions.

"We’ve experienced great growth in our relationship with LSI over the past few years, and the ground-breaking LSI WarpDrive card is a powerful addition to our broad portfolio of server and storage solutions," said Charles Liang, CEO and President of Supermicro. "The WarpDrive card will provide our enterprise server customers with simple, effective and affordable application acceleration while optimizing data center operational efficiencies."  

The LSI WarpDrive SLP-300 acceleration card offers performance up to 240,000 sustained IOPS and 300GB of SLC solid-state storage capacity within a small form factor. It is designed to maximize transactional I/O performance of data-intensive applications and workloads such as Web serving, data warehousing, data mining, professional video and high-performance computing.

The low-profile, half-length WarpDrive card plugs into the standard 8 lane PCIe Gen 2.0 slot in Supermicro server solutions to deliver performance with low latency and a low CPU burden. The WarpDrive card helps customers to accelerate application performance, reduce energy costs and eliminate racks of storage by delivering the I/O performance of hundreds of hard disk drives while consuming less than 25 watts of power.

"The WarpDrive acceleration card represents the next evolution in storage architectures for market segments requiring extreme performance," said Bill Wuertz, senior vice president and general manager, Storage Components Division, LSI. "We believe the product has the potential to transform the data center by helping customers eliminate application bottlenecks, maximize utilization of physical space and significantly reduce power consumption compared to traditional solutions."