Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has a solid state announced that, thanks to a doubling of the sas transfer rate theoretical transfer rate up to 12Gb/s can achieve. The ssd’s are meant to be in servers to be placed.
The new ssd from Hitachi will be a sas port which have a theoretical throughput of 12Gb/s, according to HGST. The drives are, just as more business sas drives with two sas interfaces, each with an interface of 12Gb/s. With the two interfaces of each 12Gb/s bandwidth for both read and write, the total available bandwidth is 4.8 GB/s.
The high bandwidth of 12Gb/s means a doubling of the current sas standard, allowing speeds of up to 6Gb/s supports. Various technology companies, including PMC-Sierra and LSI, report that their controllers work with the new sas standard.
According to the company, the new 12Gb/s standard is widely supported by the industry, partly because the technology is backwards compatible with the current sas controllers to 6Gb/s can handle. The company will use the new technology showcase on may 9, during the Scsita-fair in the US. About a possible release date of the new ssd’s, nothing is yet known.