Chapter 1

Introduction

This chapter introduces the MegaRAID SATA 150 PCI to Serial ATA storage adapters and consists of the following sections:

•Section 1.1, “Overview of Main Adapter Features”

•Section 1.2, “SATA 150 Storage Adapter Characteristics”

1.1Overview of Main Adapter Features

The MegaRAID SATA 150 storage adapters provide a high-performance Intelligent PCI to High Speed Serialized AT Attachment (PCI-to-Serial ATA) interface with RAID control capabilities. These storage adapters provide reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management.

You can install a SATA 150 adapter on a PCI bus and use it to connect Serial ATA drives to the host computer over a Serial ATA bus. SATA 150 storage adapters are an ideal RAID solution for the internal storage requirements of workgroup, departmental, and enterprise systems. SATA 150 storage adapters offer a cost-effective way to implement RAID in a server.

MegaRAID SATA storage adapters support six, four or two Serial ATA ports. A single Serial ATA device can be connected to each port.

Note: The MegaRAID SATA 150-2 is no longer available.

The following are descriptions of the SATA 150 adapters:

•The MegaRAID SATA 150-6 intelligent RAID controller and storage adapter uses three Silicon Image SiI3112A chips to support six Serial ATA ports. The Intel 80302 processor provides the intelligent RAID

MegaRAID SATA 150 Storage Adapters User’s Guide

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