New LSI 9200 series controllers: 6Gb/s, 2.88 GB/s seq. reads, 1.87 GB/s seq. writes

[HiJon89]

But it looks you will need a sata 6Gb/ drive to use it fully, no?

With innovative new 6Gb/s SAS product features and support for SATA, SAS and solid-state drives (SSDs)

You need 6Gb/s SAS drives, SATA is still 3Gb/s.