All of the new ProLiant G6 servers have the option to also use one of the recently announced P212, P410, and P411 Smart Array RAID cards based on PMC-Sierra’s SRC, as well as the HP SAS Expander Card featuring PMC-Sierra’s SXP 36圆GSec 6Gb/s SAS Expander. Additionally, the ProLiant M元50 G6 and M元70 G6 servers ship with the SRC embedded on the motherboard (ROMB) at 3Gb/s SAS speeds, with upgradeability to 6Gb/s in June 2009.

The ProLiant D元60 G6, D元80 G6, and BL460c servers ship with PMC-Sierra’s SRC RoC embedded on the motherboard (ROMB) with 6Gb/s SAS enabled. Similar testing for RAID 0 read IOPS performance delivers over 350 percent greater results than previous solutions. ProLiant G6 servers equipped with PMC-Sierra’s SRC RoC and HP’s industry-leading Smart Array RAID Stack enable RAID 5 write throughput at levels more than 150 percent greater than previous-generation ProLiant G5 controllers. PMC-Sierra’s end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset enables HP’s ProLiant storage solutions to set a new industry achievement for server performance and scalability. (Nasdaq:PMCS) today announced that its SRC 8圆G 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (RoC) and SXP 36圆GSec 6Gb/s SAS Expander are shipping across HP’s new line of ProLiant G6 servers.

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