First Generally Available Micro SAS SSDs Announced by sTec

sTec, Inc. today broadcasted that it has extended its s800 family of Serial Attached Storage (SAS) solid-state drives (SSDs) with the opening of the industry’s first generally available Micro SAS SSDs.

In addition to this, it also announced that the new small-form-factor (1.8-inch) Micro SAS SSDs are available with stringent 256-bit AES-XTS encryption, providing hardware-level security in cloud computing, data centers and web-based applications, also in government and defense environments where data protection is critical. These latest sTec Micro SAS drives are available directly from sTec and through its distribution channel.

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These Micro SAS drives are exclusively designed for blade servers, caching and high-density computing environments, providing storage-system developers with the smallest enterprise-class SAS SSD form factor. They congregate the challenging performance of today’s enterprise-storage applications.

The new sTec Micro SAS drives are available in variants like 200 GB and 400 GB capacities. The AES-XTS encryption is also available on sTec s800 2.5-inch SAS drives, with capacities up to 2 terabytes. Pricings have not been declared up till now.

Source: sTec | News Archive