Seagate and Adaptec Deliver Bundled Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Starter Kit in EMEA Distribution Channel

Seagate and Adaptec Deliver Bundled Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Starter Kit in EMEA Distribution Channel

Seagate (NYSE:STX) and Adaptec (NSDQ:ADPT) have announced a joint EMEA channel programme designed to promote early Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) deployments by system builders and resellers. The SAS Starter Kit, available at a 50% discount off Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price (MSRP), includes two 36GB Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 hard disc drives, an Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI 48300 card and the necessary cabling. The kit is designed to integrate easily into any server environment with a PCI-X host interface, allowing resellers and system builders to experience the benefits of SAS first-hand.

The SAS Starter Kit gives system builders the necessary components to start transitioning from parallel SCSI to SAS today. SAS was conceived as a best-of-breed storage solution, retaining the time-tested SCSI command set of its parallel predecessor and melding it with the most up-to-date serial technologies available. The result is an enterprise-class interface that is simple to integrate and blends four compelling attributes – performance, scalability, compatibility and SCSI integration – to form a cohesive, comprehensive solution. Servers based on SAS have the advantage of reaching breakthrough performance levels with the combination of Adaptec SAS HBAs or RAID controllers and Seagate’s Cheetah 15K.4 hard disc drives. The SAS Starter Kit is available for a limited period from 1 February. There is a limit of one SAS Starter Kit per system builder or reseller. For further information, visit http://adaptecsas.seagate.com

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