SAS-9300 Datasheet, PDF (1/2 Pages) AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED – Host Bus Adapter Family

Avago^® SAS 9300 12Gb/s SAS
Host Bus Adapter Family
Product Brief
Key Features
■■ Eight/four ports of 12Gb/s SAS + SATA
ports
■■ Eight lanes of PCI Express 3.0
■■ Low-profile form factor
■■ Mini-SAS HD connectors
■■ SAS 3008 12Gb/s SAS+SATA controller
■■ Supports SSDs, HDDs, and tape drives
Key Advantages
■■ Provides connectivity in a low-profile
form factor
■■ 8 lanes of PCI Express 3.0 provides
fast signaling for high bandwidth
applications
■■ High performance with 12Gb/s SAS
data transfer rates
For applications demanding high levels of storage connectivity and
performance, 8 and 4-port 12Gb/s SAS HBAs connect servers and
appliances to internal and external storage, achieving over 1 million IOPS.
Overview
The SAS 9300 8 and 4-port, 12Gb/s SAS host bus adapter family provides increased
connectivity and maximum performance for high-end servers and appliances within internal
storage, or connecting to large scale storage enclosures.
The SAS 9300 HBA family is based on the SAS 3008 IO controller, integrating the latest
enhancements in SAS and PCI Express^® technology. Each host bus adapter also supports 8
or 4 SAS ports operating at 12Gb/s data transfer rates, and can reach over 1 million IOPs. The
9300 adapter family supports 8 PCI Express lanes that comply with the latest PCI Express 3.0
specifications. In addition, these adapters are backwards compatible with previous SAS and
PCIe generations through automatic negotiation, and provide SAS data transfer rates of 12, 6,
and 3 Gb/s per lane, and SATA data transfer rates of 6 and 3Gb/s per lane. Avago Technologies
provides a broad suite of industry standard operating system drivers.
Avago Storage by LSI^™
Avago Technologies products serve four primary target markets: wireless communications,
wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial. Avago Storage by LSI^™ offers the
industry’s broadest portfolio of storage solutions, backed by decades of experience and
trusted by the world’s leading server and storage suppliers. Avago provides the building blocks
for storage solutions that help customers understand, prioritize, store and protect critical data.
The Avago 12Gb/s SAS portfolio includes MegaRAID^® controller cards, host bus adapters
(HBAs), advanced software options, Syncro^® shared DAS solutions and SAS storage ICs,
including RAID-on-Chip (ROCs), I/O controllers and expanders.
Fusion-MPT^™ Architecture
Fusion-MPT architecture marks the next generation of I/O architecture designed to deliver
the highest performance available today while reducing time to market, integration, and
certification time. Fusion-MPT devices are high performance, cost-effective protocol controllers
that represent the newest system- level integration technology in intelligent I/O processors
from Avago.