SAS9311 Datasheet, PDF (1/2 Pages) AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED – Host Bus Adapter Family

Avago^® SAS 9311 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
■■ Offers Integrated RAID (0, 1, 1E and 10)
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,
performance, and Integrated RAID support. SAS 9311 HBAs connect
servers and appliances to internal and external storage, achieving over
1 million IOPS.
Overview
The SAS 9311 8 and 4-port, 12Gb/s SAS host bus adapter family provide increased connectivity and
maximum performance for high-end servers and appliances within internal storage, or connecting
to large scale storage enclosures.
The SAS 9311 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 9311 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.
The SAS 9311 adapter family offers Integrated RAID (0, 1, 1E, and 10) support. Due to simplifying
the configuration options and offering a IR firmware support for its 6Gb/s SAS host adapters, these
integrated RAID solutions provide a low cost option for the server or workstation market which
requires the extra performance, storage capacity, and/or redundancy of a RAID configuration.
Integrated RAID offers distinct performance and reliability advantages, including reduced CPU levels
on your host computer, and also volumes that are OS agnostic.
The Integrated RAID solution includes the following RAID features:
• The Integrated Mirroring solution, which provides features of RAID 1
• The Integrated Mirroring + Striping solution, which provides features of RAID 10
• The Integrated Mirroring Enhanced solution, which provides features of RAID 1
• The Integrated Striping solution, which provides features of RAID 0
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.