Microsemi / Microchip Adaptec® SmartHBA 2100 SAS/SATA Host Bus Adapters

Microsemi / Microchip Adaptec^® SmartHBA 2100 SAS/SATA Host Bus Adapters combine uncompromised HBA functionality with basic RAID support. These adapters are ideal for SDS environments where hardware RAID significantly increases OS boot reliability, but HBA features and performance are otherwise needed. The SmartHBA 2100 Host Bus Adapters also provide enhanced enclosure management capabilities to both RAID and raw devices and enable enclosure services by providing a virtual SEP to software stacks if needed. The SmartHBA 2100 can be used with or without SAS expanders.

Microsemi / Microchip SmartHBA 2100 Adapters provide connectivity to large numbers of storage devices, including HDDs, SSDs, and SMR drives. These storage devices can aggregate the performance of devices to the limits of the PCIe Gen3 host bus at 6.6Gbps, and achieve up to 1.7M IOPS and 60 percent higher IOPS performance with SATA devices without additional overhead or latency.

The SmartHBA 2100 combines uncompromised HBA functionality with basic RAID support in hardware using the Microsemi / Microchip PM8222 SmartIOC 2100 silicon. Robust RAID support is the same for all platforms and operating systems, providing a consistent user experience. Metadata compatibility with SmartRAID 3100 products allows customers to upgrade to a full-featured hardware RAID solution with caching for acceleration if needed. The SmartHBA 2100 supports up to 32 hard disk drives or SSDs in RAID configurations using RAID levels 0, 1, 10, or even RAID 5 and can simultaneously use RAID arrays and raw devices in mixed mode.

Features

Combines full HBA functionality with basic hardware RAID
Offers basic RAID functionality for up to 32 devices supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 10, and 5 in conjunction with full HBA functionality for up to 238 devices, in the same solution
Broad operating system support through highly efficent, low-latency PQIdriver driver (fully open-source for Linux/ FreeBSD)
Performance of up to 1.7 million random read IOPS with extremely low-latency 4 KB I/Os Highlights
Up to 24 native SAS/SATA ports; low-profile MD2 form factor
12Gbps SAS data rates using mini-SAS HD connectors

Unified maxView management tools and drivers across the HBA, RAID, and expander solutions
Proven compatibility with existing Adaptec solutions, multiple operating systems, servers, enclosures, SSDs, HDDs, and LTO tape drives
Uses 28nm SmartIOC 2100 SAS/SATA protocol controller to drive efficiency and performance combined with low power consumption
Quality and reliability through the unified, hardened Smart Storage stack