It will allow users to create a hardware RAID and can interface with compatible drives using its SAS ports. It is generally used with SAS drives and RAID configurations. The SmartHBA 2100 is an ideal solution for server-based storage systems that require maximum bandwidth and I/O connectivity, low power consumption, high reliability, plus options for data availability. The Smart Storage Platform even allows a combination of RAID and raw devices. This is useful in SDS environments where hardware RAID significantly increases OS boot reliability, but full HBA features and performance are otherwise needed.
The SmartHBA 2100 also provides enhanced enclosure management capabilities to both RAID and raw devices, and enables enclosure services by providing a virtual SEP to software stacks if needed. Ideal for high-performing I/O solutions supporting SAS/SATA HDDs and SSDs requiring maximum connectivity 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; To be Exact: Support For Up To 256 Sas/sata Target Devices (238 Ssd/hdds Maximum Support And Remainder Are Reserved For Expanders And Enclosure Management). Broad operating system support through highly efficent, low-latency PQIdriver driver (fully open-source for Linux/FreeBSD) Performance of up to 1.7M random read IOPS with extremely low-latency 4 KB I/Os. Operating Systems Supported: Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux CentOS Debian Linux Ubuntu Linux Solaris FreeBSD VMware ESXi Citrix XenServer. The item "Microsemi Adaptec SmartHBA 2100-4i4e MD2 SAS-3 12Gbps x8 PCIe Gen3 RAID Host Bus" is in sale since Friday, May 14, 2021. This item is in the category "Computers/Tablets & Networking\Computer Components & Parts\Interface/Add-On Cards\Disk Controllers/RAID Cards". The seller is "pronetsalesinc" and is located in Chester, West Virginia.This item can be shipped to United States.