LSI PCI Express, 3 Gb/s, SAS, 8-port Host Bus Adapter interface cards/adapter

LSI Logic LSI00167 SAS3442E-R - storage controller (RAID) - SATA-300 / SAS - PCI Express x8 The LSI SAS3442E-R four-port internal/four-port external SAS/SATA PCI Express storage adapter provides 300 MB/s bandwidth (600 MB/s, full duplex) on each port for combined throughput of up to 2.4 GB/s. The storage adapter supports multi-volume OS independent Integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E and 10E without the need for special drivers. The SAS3442E-R features PCI Express connectivity, removing the host bus bottleneck from the parallel PCI busses.

Features

- 3Gb/s per port
- x4 internal SFF-8484 / x4 external SFF-8470 connectors
- Integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E and 10E
- 8-lane 2.5 Gb/s PCI Express
- MD-2 small form-factor design
- Connects to both SAS and SATA HDDs and tape drives
- Allows more than 122 total end-point devices
- Fusion-MPT architecture provides more than 140,000 I/Os per second
- Supports all major operating systems