Avago: 12Gb SAS HBAs With 16 SAS+SATA 16 Ports

Avago Technologies Ltd. announced expansion of its family of 12Gb SAS HBAs by shipping 16-port solutions.

The 9300-16i HBA will join the Avago family of SAS HBAs. With the versatility of 16 ports using internal or external storage connectivity, 12Gb SAS bandwidth, and nearly 2 million IO/s of performance, the SAS 9300 HBA family, which offers 4, 8 and 16-port options, enables OEMs and system builders to deliver connectivity for high-end servers and storage systems that exceed the  requirements for data centers, web, and cloud.

As part of the portfolio of 12Gb SAS storage solutions, the SAS 9300 16-port HBA family is a solution for large scale-out storage requirements. IT departments can deploy fewer servers with more available storage ports, which translates into measurable cost savings, reduced data center footprint, and lower power consumption.

“Enterprise web and cloud applications in software defined data center environments require levels of scale and performance that the Avago SAS 9300 family of 16-port HBA solutions now provide,” said Tom Swinford, SVP and GM, data center solutions group, Avago. “As the industry-leader in 12Gb SAS technology, this latest addition to the Avago SAS 9300 family enables the required performance for high-bandwidth server and storage applications.”

“Supermicro extends our industry lead with the widest range of enterprise SAS3 server and storage platforms featuring Avago’s latest 16-port 12Gb SAS HBAs,” said Don Clegg, VP marketing and business development, Super Micro Computer, Inc. “This latest evolution across our 1U to 4U SuperServers, SuperStorage and 7U SuperBlades delivers 2x bandwidth with cache offload and 12Gb/s expander technology, offering our customers greater performance and higher efficiency with significant cost advantages.”

“Seagate SSD and HDD solutions that use 12Gb SAS deliver increased transactional performance for servers designed to meet growing storage demands and consumption,” said Joel Hagberg, VP of product management, Seagate Technology plc. “Combining our SSD and HDD solutions with Avago’s latest 9300 series HBA with 16-ports will provide the connectivity and scale required by many of these next-generation data center deployments.“

Avago SAS 9300 family of 16-port 12Gb SAS HBAs
addresses storage connectivity requirements and delivers performance with:

• 16 external or internal 12Gb SAS + SATA ports

• 8 lanes, PCIe 3.0

• 12Gb/s data transfer rates

• 2 x LSI SAS 3008 12Gb SAS + SATA controllers

• Certification by Avago to support up to 1,024 SSDs, HDDs, and tape drives

• Certification by Avago for OS Support for Windows, Linux (SuSE, Red Hat), Solaris, VMware, FreeBSD