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SATA MegaRAID Products

What Is Serial ATA?

With LSI Logic’s Serial ATA solutions, you can take advantage of an evolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA physical storage interface. Serial ATA is scalable and allows future enhancements to the computing platform, with a roadmap expecting to span over 10 years.

Other advantages of Serial ATA include:

•Easier upgrade of storage devices

•Point-to-point configuration

•Hot pluggable drive support

•Improved power management

•Simpler configuration, without many of the previous requirements on jumper and settings

•Thinner Serial ATA cables, up to one meter long, to address concerns about airflow and allow smaller and more versatile chassis designs

•Improved silicon designs, for lower pin counts and lower voltages

MegaRAID SATA Products

MegaRAID SATA 150-6*– First-to-Market SATA RAID Storage Adapters offer LSI Logic’s full MegaRAID feature set and supports six SATA 150 drive channels, integrated 100 MHz ECC SDRAM and onboard processor.

•Intel® 80302 processor

•64-bit, 66 MHz PCI 2.2

•Half size form factor

•Six SATA 150 channels

•Battery backup support

•64MB integrated 100Mhz ECC SDRAM

•Hot swap support native in SATA protocol handled through Firmware on the card

•Backplane and 3rd party enclosure management support

MegaRAID SATA 150-2*– Featuring two SATA 150 channels and powered by LSI Logic’s MegaRAID IDEal Software RAID solution, the MegaRAID SATA 150-2 is ideal for low-cost desktop,

workstation and entry-level server environments.

•Low profile PCI form factor

•One Sil 3112A SATA controller

•32bit, 66MHz PCI 2.2

•Two SATA 150 channels

•Also available as non-RAID adapter solution

MegaRAID SATA 150-8*-- LSI Logic's enterprise-class Serial ATA RAID solution will offer eight high-performance SATA channels in a half-size form factor.

•Full MegaRAID feature set

•Eight SATA 150 channels

•Intel® 80302 processor

•64-bit, 66MHz, PCI 2.2

•PCI half size form factor

MegaRAID SATA 150-6

* Customers should contact their local LSI Logic sales representative for availability and sampling program details.

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