LSI Provides SAS Enclosure for Fujitsu High-End Servers

LSI Corporation announced that Fujitsu has selected the new LSI Engenio DE5300 high-density, 2.5-inch 3Gb/s SAS drive enclosure for its high-end server lines. The small form factor, ultra-low power 2.5-inch SAS drives housed within the DE5300 will allow Fujitsu server customers faced with IT space constraints and ballooning energy costs to utilize nearly 50 percent less power than 3.5-inch drives, and enable nearly twice as many drives to reside in the same 2U of rack space. In conjunction with LSI SAS host bus adapters (HBAs), the DE5300 also provides a cost-effective solution for growing businesses to transition to external storage for improved performance and scalability in a small physical footprint.

"The selection of the DE5300 SAS enclosure continues our overall transition from SCSI to SAS-based storage and expands our long-standing relationship with LSI," said Mr. Kenichi Sakai, general manager, Mission Critical Server Division, Enterprise Server System Unit, Fujitsu. "As power consumption and physical footprint continue to be hot-button IT issues driving the data storage market, we’re providing customers with a solution to tackle these challenges head-on."

The DE5300 is a 2U, 19-inch rack-mountable drive enclosure that supports up to twenty 2.5-inch SAS drives for a maximum capacity of 2.9 TB in a single enclosure. The dense drive accommodation supports intense random I/O applications making it an ideal solution for a wide range of computing environments, from databases and email to streaming video and online transaction processing.

"The struggle to manage escalating data volumes will not stop, even in a slow-growth economy," said Steve Gardner, director of product marketing, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. "As the industry leader in the SAS market segment, LSI is uniquely positioned to provide Fujitsu server customers with a solution that allows growing businesses to maximize storage density and power efficiency by combining the benefits of small form factor SAS drives with the flexibility to move beyond the scalability limitations of internal storage."

The DE5300 is designed to minimize acquisition costs by allowing users to add additional enclosures as capacity requirements change for a ‘start small, grow big’ approach. In addition, the DE5300’s split-bus backplane allows the enclosure to be shared between two hosts. By sharing a common physical infrastructure, 10 drives can be assigned to one server and the remaining 10 drives to another, lowering cost of ownership.