SAS-9305 Datasheet, PDF (1/2 Pages) AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED – Supports SSDs and HDDs and tapedrives

Product Brief
SAS 9305
12Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter Family
Applications
• High port count SAS/SATA adapter
solutions for direct attached high
connectivity applications
• External storage requiring high
connectivity SAS/SATA interface
for host or drive side connect
Key Features
• Support for 16 external, 16 internal,
or 24 internal 12Gb/S SAS and SATA
ports
• Eight lanes, PCI Express 3.0 Host
Interface
• Supports SSDs and HDDs and
tapedrives
• High performance with 12Gb/s
datatransfer rates and multiple SAS
cores
– Up to 1.5 million IOPs @ 4KB
block size
– Up to 6.5 GB/s sequential read
throughput
Overview
The SAS 9305 16-port and 24-port, 12Gb/s SAS HBA family provides
increased connectivity and maximum performance for high-end servers
and appliances with internal storage or when connecting to large-scale
storage enclosures.
The SAS 9305 HBA family is based on either the SAS 3216 or 3224 IO
controller that integrates the latest enhancements in SAS and PCI Express®
technology. The adapters can deliver more than 1 million IOPs. The HBAs
support up to 24 SAS ports operating at 12Gb/s data transfer rates. The
HBA family supports 8 PCI Express lanes that comply with the latest PCI
Express 3.0 specification. The adapters are backwards compatible with the
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 provides a broad suite of
industry standard operating system drivers.
Avago Storage Solutions
Avago Limited products serve four primary target markets: wireless
communications, wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial
and other. Avago has 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, 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
Avago SAS HBAs are based on Fusion-MPT architected SAS controllers,
which implement the Fusion-MPT (Message Passing Technology)
architecture. Each controller features embedded PowerPC™ processors
that help deliver maximum host CPU offload. The built-in intelligence
enables Avago to publish a single binary OS driver to operate any Fusion-
MPT controller or adapter. The architecture helps enable high performance,
reduced software development, and faster time to market.
SAS 9305 12Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter Family