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SAS SYSTEM BUILDER

RESOURCE GUIDE 2008

A signiﬁcant change has been underway in

the server and storage business for some

time. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) has

become the preferred interface for hard

drives in servers and storage products—

particularly from large manufacturers like

HP, IBM, Sun and Dell, and increasingly

from channel-oriented companies like

Intel, Supermicro, AIC and Chenbro. In

fact, by mid-2009 the SCSI interface

will not be produced by major hard drive

manufacturers. This transition by the

industry’s leading hard drive and server

manufacturers threatens to leave system

builders behind if they do not prepare

for this change. But it also offers a great

opportunity to those builders willing to

adapt and learn.

The purpose of this document is to give

system builders information regarding

the transition, to highlight the business

opportunities for developing 3.5-inch and

2.5-inch SAS systems for their customers,

and to furnish a matrix that will help system

builders ﬁnd companies providing SAS-

enabled products.

INTRODUCTION Small Form Factor SAS—

Becoming the Standard

Gartner predicts 2.5-inch SAS drives will be the

industry standard by the end of 2008. HP, IBM, Dell

and Sun have already moved their industry-standard

servers and storage products to SAS conﬁgurations—

particularly small form factor SAS. For instance, nearly

all HP G5 series servers use 2.5-inch SAS drives. What

this means is that thousands of SAS-enabled servers

are available in the market and in the distribution

channel every quarter.

The Beneﬁts of SAS:

•SAS infrastructure supports both SAS and SATA

drives on the same backplane

•Lower total cost of ownership

•SAS systems are scalable to more than 16 devices

•Dual-port provides high availability

•SAS utilizes SCSI middleware

•SAS system is universal controller

Small Form Factor Business Opportunity

for System Builders

While HP has fully embraced SFF SAS for industry

standard servers, other manufacturers have expanded

their product lines in this area—giving ample

opportunity for system builders to compete. As our

matrix in this document shows, many manufacturers

who sell through the channel have products that

are SAS-enabled, well-known companies like: LSI,

Adaptec, Intel, AIC, Chenbro and Supermicro.

For System Builders Not Currently

Building Servers

If you are not currently building servers or storage

systems, now is the time to add SAS servers and

storage systems to your product portfolio.

Seagate Value Proposition

You can rely on drives from Seagate, the number-one enterprise drive manufacturer in the world, and you can

expect our support in enabling this new market. Seagate is investing heavily to promote SAS and small form

factor SAS technology in the channel. We will be training system builders on SAS and small form factor SAS

technology through the Seagate Partner Program and will be working with distributors to bring you business

opportunities and bundles with other leading channel companies⎯to bring better value to you and, at the end of

the day, higher margins.

Seagate Savvio Drives

For mainstream applications, Seagate Savvio 10K and 15K

drives are the leading 2.5-inch enterprise drives.

Smaller

•70 percent smaller than 3.5-inch drives

•More drives in the same space

Higher reliability

•Industry-leading 1.6M hours MTBF

•SAS dual-porting provides redundancy

•Backed by a 5-year limited warranty.

Faster

•10 percent faster seek times than 3.5-inch 10K

•Higher performance per U (more IOPS/U)

•Over 30 percent faster sustained transfer rates than

previous generation

Cooler

•Low power consumption equals cooler-running drives

•20 percent less power than 3.5-inch drives

•2.5-inch size enables more airﬂow to cool processors

•Result: lower overall costs

2.5-inch Tier 1 Best-Fit Applications

•Mainstream enterprise applications

•File and print

•Blade servers

•Rack and tower servers

•Storage arrays

Seagate Cheetah Drive

The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 and Cheetah NS drives set

a new standard for storage cost-effectiveness with an

unprecedented blend of performance, capacity and reliability.

Eco-friendly

•PowerTrim™ technology provides 62 percent improvement

in GBs/watt at idle.

Lower cost

•Greater areal density means fewer drives, reducing

supporting infrastructure, maintenance and space while

boosting system reliability

Higher performance

•Unprecendented performance with a sustained data rate of

up to 164 MB/s

Better availability

•Reduces RAID rebuild times

•Minimizes reliability risk exposure

•Nonrecoverable error rate improved by 10X

3.5-Inch Tier 1 Best-Fit Applications

•Email

•Business processing

•Transaction processing

•Storage area networks

•Network attached storage

•Internet and e-commerce

Seagate Leadership: SAS for Tiered Storage

To better serve your customers, Seagate offers several choices in SAS drives for both Tier 1 and Tier 2

applications. The Seagate® Savvio® 2.5-inch 10K and 15K drives and the Cheetah® 3.5-inch 10K and 15K

drives provide mission-critical Tier 1 options while the Barracuda® ES.2 SAS drive is a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM

drive designed for Tier 2 nearline applications.

Seagate Barracuda ES.2

SAS Drives

Designed for high-capacity enterprise storage

applications in the tier 2 (nearline) storage area, where

dollars/GB and GB/watt are a primary concern, the

Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS drive provides world-

leading technology and value.

Unbeatable performance – 135% increase over SATA

•Full duplex I/O, 7200 RPM

•Top performer in sequential read/writes

•Improved rotational vibration for use in enterprise

cabinetry

Superior data integrity

•SAS = Full Read and Write Error Correction and

Detection (IOECC/IOEDC) vs. SATA with IOECC/

IOEDC on Writes and only IOEDC (Error Detection) on

Reads

•Dual-port SAS for fail-over and data recovery in

shared storage environments

Investment protection

•Seamless SAS-SATA connectivity (no interposer

cards necessary)

•Compatible with all existing SCSI software and

middleware

Eco-Friendly

•12.5 watts operating and 9 watts idle temperature –

only 1-watt increase over SATA

•PowerTrim™ technology reduces power

consumption, heat and energy costs without

sacriﬁcing performance

Simplicity and continuity

•Easy, enterprise-level management with multi-host

support – 16:1 = SAS:SATA

True enterprise Tier 2 to ofﬂoad Tier 1 storage

•Supports up to 1 TB for storage-hungry applications

•Designed for 24x7 operations, 1.2M hours MTBF

•Hot-swappable drives and simple four-wire cabling

makes serviceability quick and easy

•Improved reliability with SAS by eliminating the single

point of failure of single-ported SATA drives

3.5-Inch Tier 2 Best-Fit

Applications

• Maximum-capacity servers

• Rich media content storage

• 

Reference and compliance

data storage

• Video surveillance

Type

Interface

SAS Port Count Adapter Count Sockets SAS Controller RAID Options Form Factor Memory

RJ45 (10/100/1000)

USB

Website

Internal External

PCI

PCI-X

PCIe x2

PCIe x4

PCIe x8

PCIe x12

PCIe x16

PCIe x32

HTx (Riser)

Count Type Make Model Slots Max

x4 (SFF-8482)

x4 (SFF-8470)

Arima

LH510-SAS MoBo SAS 4 1 2 2 2 mpg604 LSI SAS1064 0,1 12”x 13”SSI EEB 816 2 4 www.arima.com.tw

NM460 MoBo SAS 8 2 2 1 2 F Vitesse VSC7250 0, 1, 10 12”x 13”SSI EEB 16 64 2 8 www.arima.com.tw

NM462 MoBo SAS 8 2 1 2 F Vitesse VSC7250 0, 1, 10 12”x 13”SSI EEB 16 64 2 8 www.arima.com.tw

NM477 MoBo SAS 8 2 2 F Vitesse VSC7250 0, 1, 5, 10 12”x 13”SSI EEB 16 64 2 8 www.arima.com.tw

NM478 MoBo SAS 8 2 2 F Vitesse VSC7250 0, 1, 5, 10 12”x 13”SSI EEB 16 64 2 8 www.arima.com.tw

NM479 MoBo SAS 8 1 2 2 F Vitesse VSC7250 0, 1, 5, 10 12”x 13”SSI EEB 16 64 2 8 www.arima.com.tw

Asus

KFN4-D16/SAS MoBo SAS 2 1 3 1 1 2 F LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 5, 10 12”x 13”SSI EEB 16 64 2 2 www.asus.com

KFN32-D SLI /SAS MoBo SAS 2 2 2 1 2 2 1207 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1E, 5 12”x 13”SSI EEB 832 2 3 www.asus.com

DSBF-D/SAS MoBo SAS 2 1 3 1 1 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1E, 5 12”x 13”SSI EEB 832 2 2 www.asus.com

P5M2/SAS MoBo SAS 2 1 2 2 1 775 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1E, 5 12" * 9.6", ATX 4 8 2 2 www.asus.com

DSBF-D12/SAS MoBo SAS 2 2 2 1 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1E, 5 12”x 13”SSI EEB 12 48 2 2 www.asus.com

DSGC-DW/SAS MoBo SAS 2 1 2 1 1 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1E, 5 12”x 13”SSI EEB 832 2 4 www.asus.com

DSBF-DE/SAS MoBo SAS 2 2 3 1 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1E, 5 12”x 13”SSI EEB 832 2 2 www.asus.com

DSBV-DX/SAS MoBo SAS 8 1 2 2 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1E, 5, 10, 50 12”x 10.5”SSI EEB 624 2 2 www.asus.com

DSBF-D16/SAS MoBo SAS 8 1 3 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1E, 5, 10, 50 12”x 13”SSI EEB 16 64 2 2 www.asus.com

Flextronics

DPK66S-SAS MoBo SAS 8 1 2 1 2 2 771 LSI 1068 12" x 13" SSI EATX 16 64 2 6 www.ﬂextronics.com

Gigabyte

GA-7BESH-RH w/GC-SAS01-RH MoBo SAS 8 1 2 3 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 10 12"W x 13"D EATX 832 2 7 www.gigabyte.com.tw

GA-7GEWH-RH MoBo SAS 8 2 1 1 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 5, 10 12"W x 13"D EATX 832 2 8 www.gigabyte.com.tw

Intel

S5000PAL w/SAS expansion module MoBo SAS 4 4 1 4 2 2 771 LSI SAS1064 0, 1, 5, 10 832 2 2 www.intel.com

S5000PSLSAS w/SAS expansion MoBo SAS 4 4 2 2 2 2 771 LSI SAS1064 0, 1, 5, 10 832 2 2 www.intel.com

S5000PSLSASR w/SAS expansion MoBo SAS 4 4 2 2 2 2 771 LSI SAS1064 0, 1, 5, 10 832 2 2 www.intel.com

S5000PSLROMBR MoBo SAS 8 4 2 2 2 2 771 LSI SAS1064 0, 1, 5, 10 832 2 2 www.intel.com

S5000XVNSASR MoBo SAS 4 4 2 2 1 2 771 LSI SAS1064 0, 1, 5, 10 832 2 2 www.intel.com

S5000VSASASR MoBo SAS 4 4 1 2 2 2 771 LSI SAS1064 0, 1, 5, 10 816 2 2 www.intel.com

S5400SF W/SAS expansion module MoBo SAS 4 4 2 771 LSI SAS1064 0, 1, 5, 10 16 64 2 2 www.intel.com

MSI

K9ND Master-S4R MoBo SAS 4 1 1 2 1 2 F LSI SAS1064E E-ATX 30.48cm x 33.02cm 16 64 2 2 www.iwill.net

5000V Master2-S8M MoBo SAS 8 1 2 1 1 2 771 LSI SAS1068 0, 1, 1D 616 2 2 www.msi.com.tw

SuperMicro

X7DA3+ MoBo SAS 6 1 3 1 1 2 771 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 13" EATX 832 2 6 www.supermicro.com

X7QC3 MoBo SAS 8 1 1 2 4 mPGA4 LSI SAS1068E 0, 1, 5, 10 16 x 14.3 (proprietary) 24 192 2 5 www.supermicro.com

X 7 D CL- 3 MoBo SAS 8 1 1 2 2 771 LSI SAS1068E 0, 1, 5, 10 12" x 10" ATX 632 2 5 www.supermicro.com

X7DB3 MoBo SAS 2 3 1 2 2 771 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 13" EATX 832 2 5 www.supermicro.com

X7DBR-3 MoBo SAS 2 2 2 771 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 13" EATX 832 2 5 www.supermicro.com

X6DH3-G2 MoBo SAS 2 1 3 2 2 mPGA4 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 13" EATX 816 2 4 www.supermicro.com

X6DHR-3G2 (OEM) MoBo SAS 1 1 2 2 2 mPGA4 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12"W x 13"D EATX 816 2 4 www.supermicro.com

X6DHP-3G2 (SuperServer Only) MoBo SAS 1 1 2 2 mPGA4 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 9.6 x 16.2 (proprietary) 816 2 4 www.supermicro.com

X6DA3-G2 MoBo SAS 2 1 3 1 1 2 mPGA4 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 13" EATX 816 2 8 www.supermicro.com

Tyan

Thunder n6650W (S2915) MoBo SAS 8 1 2 4 2 F LSI SAS1068E 0, 1, 1E 12" x 13" SSI EATX 832 210 www.tyan.com

Thunder n3600R (S2912) MoBo SAS 4 2 1 2 F LSI SAS1064E 0, 1, 1E 12" x 13" SSI EATX 832 2 8 www.tyan.com

Thunder i7520D (S5360-D) MoBo SAS 4 1 1 5 1 1 2 604 Adaptec AIC-9410W 0, 1, 10 12" x 13" SSI EATX 832 2 6 www.tyan.com

Thunder i7522 (S5362) MoBo SAS 4 1 1 4 1 2 604 Adaptec AIC-9410W 0, 1, 10 12" x 13" SSI EATX 816 2 8 www.tyan.com

Tempest i5000PW (S5382) MoBo SAS 8 1 4 2 2 771 LSI SAS1068E 0, 1, 1E 12" x 13" SSI EATX 16 64 2 8 www.tyan.com

Tempest i5000PT (S5383) MoBo SAS 8 2 2 771 LSI SAS1068E 0, 1, 1E 12" x 13" SSI EATX 16 64 2 2 www.tyan.com

Tempest i5000VS (S5372-LH) MoBo SAS 8 1 1 1 1 2771 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 10.5" ATX 624 2 2 www.tyan.com

Tempest i5000VS (S5372-LC) MoBo SAS 8 1 1 1 1 2 771 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 10.5" ATX 624 2 2 www.tyan.com

Tempest i5400XT (S5396) MoBo SAS 8 1 2 1 2 2 771 Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 5, 10 12" x 13" SSI EATX 832 2 2 www.tyan.com

Tomcat h1000E (S3970G2N-U) MoBo SAS 8 4 1 2 F Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 10.2" ATX 832 2 2 www.tyan.com

Tomcat h1000E (S3970-E) MoBo SAS 8 4 1 2 F Adaptec AIC9410 0, 1, 10 12" x 10.2" ATX 832 2 4 www.tyan.com

Thunder n3600M (S2932) MoBo SAS 8 1 3 2 2 F LSI SAS1068E 0, 1, 1E 12" x 13" SSI EATX 16 64 2 4 www.tyan.com

SAS-Enabled Motherboard Availability