1000MB/s is only achievable using wide port SAS, in other words there are 2 physical 6Gbps interfaces on the SAS connector of this SSD, one on each side of the

1000MB/s is only achievable using wide port SAS, in other words there are 2 physical 6Gbps interfaces on the SAS connector of this SSD, one on each side of the PCB. There is a bit more info in the vendor's press release at http://www.smartm.com/media/press_releases/article360.asp http://www.smartm.com/media/press_releases/article360.asp Without wide port SAS, the drive achieves only 500MB/s which is far from being remarkable. A handful of SSDs already achieve this throughput on one 6Gbps SATA or SAS link.