LSI 12Gb/s SAS

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hi

I would like to refer to...

http://www.lsi.com/about/newsroom/Pages/20111115apr.aspx

That was November 2011.

Does anyone know when LSI will be out with their HBA solution(PCIe card) for this technology.

LSI SAS 9207-8i, 8 ports internal, low-profile PCIe 3.0
is what I am looking at now as the latest, available but I can wait for a few months
if the 12Gb/s is going to show up.

Anyone ?

Ghat
 
Since there is nothing that they will sell in any quantity that will take real advantage of this yet,outside of custom boards they will probably wait until they sell through all existing 6Gb/s stock in the channel before they start shipping the new stuff, if it is truly ready for retail sale yet.
 
hi

any idea of what price point it will hit for the 8i version when it comes to market, (? What was the price of the 9207-8i @launch ?)

Ghat
 
I have no idea what the pricing will be. What I would expect is that at launch they will be priced higher than existing 6Gb product and as soon as all the 6Gb sells out (and the other board makers start releasing their 12Gb product) that the pricing will settle down to what the 6Gb sells for now.
 
just a heads up.. I just purchased my 9207 from Provantage.. came out to be about $254 after shipping. not a bad deal. Got 4 x 128gb ocz max iops (with room to upgrade) to drop in a new xeon 1245 v2 h77 matx rig (w/ pci 3.0) coming this week. Can't wait to see what they can do. Going to be replacing the rig in sig The reviews are saying 8 x crucial m4's don't even saturate it. It says it's special order but they give approximate days extra for the order and it was only a day or two. I see that it's also available from other retailers like newegg for $299
 
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magnetik said:
just a heads up.. I just purchased mine from Provantage.. came out to be about $254 after shipping. not a bad deal. Got 4 x 128gb ocz max iops (with room to upgrade) to drop in a new xeon 1245 v2 h77 matx rig (w/ pci 3.0) coming this week. Can't wait to see what they can do. Going to be replacing the rig in sig The reviews are saying 8 x crucial m4's don't even saturate it. It says it's special order but they give approximate days extra for the order and it was only a day or two. I see that it's also available from other retailers like newegg for $299
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That's only a 6Gb/s card, not the 12Gb/s the OP was talking about.
 
ghat said:
Does anyone know when LSI will be out with their HBA solution(PCIe card) for this technology.

LSI SAS 9207-8i, 8 ports internal, low-profile PCIe 3.0
is what I am looking at now as the latest, available but I can wait for a few months
if the 12Gb/s is going to show up.
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SAS3 PCIe 3.0 12Gb/s IT-mode HBA's based on the SAS3008 (Fury) silicon, like the 9311-8i/9311-8e, are scheduled for 2013.

The SAS3008 chip will be the evolution of the SAS2008 found on many popular low-cost HBA's like the LSI 9211, IBM M1015, etc

LSI 9207 cards based on SAS2308 = meh. Sure they're PCIe 3.0 but performance-wise not a big enough boost over SAS2008 based cards to get excited about. Not with SAS3008 looming anyway.
 
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