Adaptec SmartRAID-3100E RAID Adapters From Microchip

To support cloud, enterprise and workstation customers that require the robustness and performance of hardware RAID at an entry-level cost point, Microchip Technology Inc. announces the Adaptec SmartRAID-3100E RAID adapters which are designed to provide reliable hardware RAID protection for customer data in cost-sensitive end applications.

The SmartRAID-3100E provides over 60% performance acceleration over the company’s prior-gen Adaptec Series 8E products at 40% power savings.

The SmartRAID-3100E series joins the firm’s existing production-released family of PCIe Gen 3 SAS-3/SATA SmartRAID-3100 adapters. The SmartRAID-3100E adapters are for systems desiring application acceleration from caching support and entry-level enterprise RAID data protection without the cost of cache protection or advanced RAID levels of full-featured RAID adapters.

“The SmartRAID-3100E entry-level adapters offer a migration path for those seeking to transition from software RAID solutions or a legacy entry-level hardware RAID solution to Microchip’s proven Smart Storage stack,” said Andrew Dieckmann, associate VP, data center solutions business unit, Microchip. “These adapters offer a built-in DRAM cache of one or 2GB providing significant performance acceleration and lower power over previous gens and are ideal for 4K random R/W workloads.“

Entry-level SmartRAID-3100E RAID adapters are suited for applications such as computing and graphical applications, edge compute and storage nodes, and industrial and manufacturing servers. Enterprises and cloud service providers have the option to update the Adaptec Series 6E and Series 8E RAID adapters to the Smart Storage platform for these applications and benefit from the unified drivers, firmware and management tools across the Smart Storage family.

Deployment tools
The SmartRAID-3100E adapters share the common Smart Storage deployment tools such as the Adaptec maxView Storage Manager and the new open-source, SDS plug-ins. Public firmware, software and documentation are available at the company website. A dedicated Adaptec knowledgebase is also available at this link.

Adaptec SmartRAID-3100E series board-level adapters are available in volume production quantities. Two devices, the 3102E-8i and 3101E-4i, supporting hardware RAID levels 0, 1 and 10, provide data reliability and performance acceleration for up to 8 and 4 direct attach devices, respectively.

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October 17, 2019 | Press Release