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Avago Technolgies, via its recent acquisition of LSI, is announcing that it is expanding its industry-leading lineup of 12Gb/s SAS host bus adapters (HBAs) to include new 16-port offerings. The 9300-16i (internal connectivity) and 9300-16e (external connectivity) are their newest high port count SAS HBAs, providing 12Gb/s of bandwidth and (up to) nearly 2,000,000 IOPS of performance. Avago’s new 16-port HBAs join their 4- and 8-port cousins to provide system builders and OEMs with the highest levels of connectivity for their high-end servers and storage systems.
Avago’s SAS 9300 16-port HBAs are an excellent solution for large scale-out storage requirements (up to 1024 SSDs, HDDs or tape drives) for demanding storage architectures such as data center, web or cloud applications. By utilizing Avago SAS 9300 16-port HBAs, IT managers are able to deploy fewer servers, yet with more available storage ports, resulting in measurable cost reductions, lower power consumption, and a smaller data center footprint.
According to Tom Swinford, senior vice president and general manager of the Data Center Solutions Group at Avago, “Enterprise-class 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. As the industry leader in 12Gb/s SAS technology, this latest addition to the Avago SAS 9300 family enables the required performance for high bandwidth server and storage applications.”
Don Clegg, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Supermicro, states that “Supermicro extends our industry lead with the widest range of enterprise-class SAS3 server and storage platforms featuring Avago’s latest 16-port 12Gb/s SAS HBAs. 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 best cost advantages.”
Seagate vice president of product management Joel Hagberg observes that “Seagate SSD and HDD solutions that use 12Gb/s SAS deliver increased transactional performance for servers designed to meet growing data storage demands and consumption. 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’s SAS 9300 16-port 12 Gb/s SAS HBAs are able to fulfill the most demanding connectivity and performance requirements with:
The SAS 9300-16e (external connectivity) product page can be viewed at Avago’s website here, and the SAS 9300-16i (internal connectivity) product page can be viewed here. The Avago press release announcing the SAS 9300 16-port HBAs can be viewed in its entirety here.
Is it comparable to the 9361? Does it have 1GB or 2GB of cache?
It would be nice if they made an optional 2 card width unit with a much more significant heat radiator.
You can always slap a fan in there 🙂
It is true – however I’d love to have a quiet system and a much larger radiator would do the trick. However my desire is moot if Avago never releases a 16i or 24i RAID controller to replace the very old 9260 and 9280 which just don’t have the throughput, processing power or cache required for newer drives.