PMC-Sierra launched the Adaptec by PMC family of Series 6 RAID controllers with a Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection option, designed for high I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing applications. Based on PMC-Sierra’s SRC 8x6G RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controller, the Adaptec Series 6 family comes with Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection, which reduces operating costs and minimizes environmental impact.
The Series 6 delivers scalability, with support for up to 256 SATA/SAS devices using SAS expanders and an eight lane PCIe Gen 2 host interface bus connection, and also delivers up to 2GB/s sustained data transfer rate to a host of applications that require high sequential bandwidth. At peak performance, the product offers 4.8GB/s through the SAS 2.0 interfaces and 4GB/s through the PCIe Gen2 host interface delivering enough bandwidth for high streaming applications, such as editing and broadcasting uncompressed 3D video streams.
Zero-maintenance cache protection eliminates the need to replace lithium ion batteries, reducing the hazardous waste disposal previously required in cache-critical computing applications. †
Series 6 RAID controllers feature:
- 6Gb/s SAS 2.0 interfaces and PCIe Gen 2 host connection
- Hardware RAID levels 0,1,1E,5,5EE,6,10,50,60
- Hybrid RAID 1,10 support for arrays of Solid State Drives (SSD) and Hard Disk Drives (HDD)
- Intelligent power management, which reduces storage power and cooling costs by up to 70 percent
- Centralized storage management with Adaptec Storage Manager
