SAS9212-4I4E Datasheet, PDF (1/2 Pages) AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED – Host Bus Adapter

Avago SAS 9212-4i4e
8-Port, 6Gb/s SAS+SATA to PCI Express Host Bus Adapter
Product Brief
Key Features
■■ 4 Internal and 4 external 6Gb/s
SAS+SATA ports
■■ 8 lanes, PCIe 2.0
■■ Low profile form factor design
■■ Four x1 internal SATA connectors
■■ One x4 mini-SAS external connector
(SFF8088)
■■ LSISAS2008 6Gb/s SAS+SATA
Controller
■■ Supports up to 256 SAS or SATA end
devices
■■ Supports SSDs, HDDs and tape drives
■■ Offers Integrated RAID (0, 1, 1E and 10)
Key Advantages
■■ Provides state of the art connectivity
for servers and appliances with
internal storage and the ability to add
external storage
■■ 8 lanes of PCIe 2.0 provides fast
signaling for high-bandwidth
applications
■■ High performance with 6Gb/s data
transfer rates
8-Port SAS HBA Provides High Performance for Internal and External
Storage Connections
Overview
The Avago SAS 9212-4i4e host bus adapter provides high performance for internal and
external storage connections. The SAS 9212-4i4e provides 8 lanes of 6Gb/s SAS and is matched
with 8 lanes of PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 5Gb/s performance to eliminate bottlenecks. Performance
is based on the SAS 2008 IO controller that highly integrates the latest enhancements in PCIe
and SAS technology.
The SAS 9212-4i4e has four x1 internal SATA connectors and one x4 mini-SAS external
connector (SFF8088) enabling a low profile solution which provide SAS and SATA data transfer
rates of 1.5, 3 and 6Gb/s per lane through automatic speed negotiation that can achieve over
320,000 IOPs. Enhanced features include T-10 Protection Information Model for early detection
of and recovery from data corruption, and Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) for minimal EMI.
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 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.