Following a recent announcement of a partnership between Seagate and LSI, LSI announced the bootable SSS6200 PCIe form factor solid state storage solution. Capacity is initially targeted at 300GB, scalable up to 1TB as flash technology evolves. The 300GB solution operates within the PCIe power envelope of 25W. In addition the front-end is PCIe 2.0 x8 while the flash module connectivity is 6G SAS. The primary competitor of the SSS6200 is the Fusion-io’s ioDrive product line which currently is not bootable. This technology offers IT groups the opportunity to increase service levels as well as reduce server, storage and energy footprints due to orders of magnitude increase in random performance over rotating media RAID.
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