Seagate to Demonstrate SAS-12Gb/s Solid-State Drives at Conference

Seagate Innovation will demonstrate a variety of technologies at the SCSI trade association innovation showcase this week aimed at improving the performance of servers, datacenters and cloud computing applications, including the first public demonstration of solid-state drives with Serial Attached SCSI 12Gb/s interface. Seagate's rival Hitachi GST will as well demo its SSDs with SAS-12Gb/s interface at the same event.

While Seagate will first demonstrate the research on its solid-state drives to optimize the high performance benefits of SSDs, the 12Gb/s SAS standard is as well compatible with high-performance and high-capacity hard disk drives. These can be seamlessly integrated within existing infrastructures using 6Gb/s SAS because the new faster SAS standard is upside down compatible with all previous generations of SAS speeds. Seagate’s implementation of 12Gb/s SAS is fully compatible with controllers and other technologies from PMC-Sierra and LSI, two of the leading host bus adapter and expander vendors.