Technology Overview

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership
  Lower your total cost of Ownership (TCO) and protect your investment with 6Gb/s SAS diagnostics and backward compatibility
• Performance
  Increase performance and maximize your data throughput and IOPS with SAS 6 Gbit/s line rates, multiplexing and self-configuring. If you want to keep up with today’s high-speed processors and bandwidth-hungry applications, 6Gb/s SAS is the answer. With data transfer rates up to 600 MB/s per direction, you get up to 2x of the data transfer speed and up to 2x the bandwidth and IOPS. This allows IT data centers to double the number of simultaneous connections allowing double the number of hard disk drives to transfer data at the same time. Multiplexing means you can take advantage of SAS 6 Gbit/s bandwidth while using 3 Gbit/s and 1.5 Gbit/s drives, boosting the throughput and IOPs capability of your SAS systems.
• Security
  Protect your system and secure your data with 6Gb/s SAS zoning
• Usability and Flexibility
  Ease your service and build efforts and expand your data center configuration options with 6Gb/s SAS