The explosive growth of data in cloud and enterprise datacenters is driving the need for a higher performance storage interface to speed the ability of critical applications to access data. LSI first-to-market 12 Gbps SAS solutions are designed to deliver the performance and data protection capabilities required for the most demanding server and storage platforms. Offering up to double the data transfer rate of 6 Gbps SAS solutions, 12 Gbps SAS allows the SAS infrastructure to deliver bandwidth that can fully utilize that of PCI Express 3.0 with a single controller card. The MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i, with eight internal ports, delivers two 1.2 GHz PowerPC processor cores and a 72-bit DDRIII interface. Powered by the LSISAS3108 dual-core ROC, the 9361-8i controller includes the PCI Express 3.0 and 12 Gbps SAS technology and helps users to support increased scaling of hard disk drives (HDDs) and maximize the performance benefits of solid state drives (SSDs).