Microchip Ships NVMe and 24Gb SAS Tri-Mode RAID and HBA Storage Adapters

Microchip Technology Inc. announced the Adaptec Smart Storage PCIe Gen 4 NVMe Tri-Mode SmartRAID-3200 RAID adapters, and SmartHBA 2200 and HBA 1200 HBAs.

These adapters enable next-gen NVMe and 24Gb SAS connectivity and manageability with performance while delivering new levels of security required for next-gen data center infrastructure.

“Our new Adaptec Tri-Mode storage adapters deliver the performance, connectivity, security and ease of management that our cloud and server OEM customers require for their latest PCIe Gen 4-based server storage solutions,” said Andrew Dieckmann, associate VP, product marketing, data center solutions business unit, Microchip. “These adapters set a new benchmark in the industry for storage adapter security and performance with the latest NVMe and 24Gb SAS media, as well as flexibility for supporting 12Gb SAS and 6Gb SATA SSDs and HDDs.“

“Our cloud and enterprise customers demand that storage systems move vast data sets efficiently and reliably at speed,” said Greg Matson, senior director, strategic planning and product marketing, NPSG, Intel Corp. “Supporting x8 and x16 PCIe Gen 4 with up to 4x performance improvement over previous gens, Microchip’s newest Smart Storage adapters, when paired with Intel’s latest TLC and QLC PCIe 3D NAND SSDs, help improve the performance of high-density storage solutions.“

“Our NVMe and SAS/SATA infrastructure innovations are delivering the media flexibility, dependability and scalability to hit the performance and cost targets customers are demanding,” said Sangyeun Cho, SVP, memory software development team, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. “The latest Samsung PCIe Gen4 NVMe and 24G SAS SSDs have completed their compatibility testing with Microchip’s SmartRAID-3200 adapters and are ready for deployment.“

SmartRAID 3200 24Gb Sas Pcie Gen 4 HBA

The company’s Smart Storage adapters deliver between 8 to 32 ports of NVMe 4.0 and/or 24Gb SAS drive support and offer both x8 and x16 PCIe Gen 4 CPU interface options and up to a 4x performance improvement over previous gens. Capabilities, like Dynamic Channel Multiplexing (DCM) SAS Link aggregation technology, deliver greater than 99% expander-attached link efficiency, improving the performance of high-density storage solutions.

SmartHBA 2200 HBA

The firm‘s Smart Storage adapters are powered by the company’s Smart Storage Stack and management tools. This latest gen of adapters has added support for the SFF-TA-1005 industry standards for Universal Backplane Management (UBM) and the Intel Virtual Pin Port (VPP) for intelligent backplane management, and the Distributed Management Task Force’s standards-based Platform Level Data Model (PLDM)/Redfish Device Enablement (RDE) simplifying the implementation of out-of-band management over MCTP/BMC.

SmartHBA 1200 HBA

“Micron’s NVMe and SATA SSDs deliver a wide range of performance and capacity options for demanding enterprise workloads, whether in an on-prem data center or in the cloud,” said Currie Munce, VP, storage solutions architecture, Micron Technology, Inc. “Adaptec Tri-Mode adapters coupled with Micron SSDs provide our customers the flexibility to deploy high-performance, low-latency NVMe storage and SATA storage all in a common system platform.“

“New storage technologies help drive the IT industry forward, improving application performance and data center efficiency,” said Alvaro Toledo, SVP and GM, SSD business unit, Kioxia America, Inc. “Solutions like Microchip’s tri-mode Smart Storage adapters enable next-gen storage architectures and unleash the value that KIOXIA is able to bring to customers with 24Gb SAS and SFF-TA-1001 conformant (U.3) PCIe 4.0 SSDs.“

“HDDs are expected to power the vast majority of exabytes stored in data centers through 2030 and beyond,” said Sai Varanasi, VP, product line management, Seagate Technology plc. “Microchip’s reliable and secure adapters, including support for multi-actuator devices, are key enablers for the latest data-center deployments.“

Storage infrastructure requires both adapter-level and supply-chain security capabilities. This new gen of adapters includes a range of secure storage options with support for both self-encrypting drive (SED) and maxCrypto Controller-Based Encryption (CBE). These capabilities extend the encryption boundary beyond SED devices alone to now secure data stored in cache memory. Microchip’s Trusted Platform technology delivers required supply-chain security and aligns with the Open Compute Security Project initiative.

Deployment tools
Adaptec SmartRAID-3200 RAID adapters, SmartHBA 2200 and SmartHBA 1200 HBAs share the common Smart Storage deployment tools such as the Adaptec maxView Storage Manager and ARCCONF management tools for local management, MCTP and DMTF’s standards-based Platform Level Data Model (PLDM)/Redfish Device Enablement (RDE) for remote management over BMC and Chiplink Diagnostic Tools. Public firmware, software and documentation are available. A dedicated Adaptec knowledge base is also available.

Availability:
Adaptec SmartRAID-3200, SmartHBA 2200, and HBA 1200 board-level adapters, providing up to 32 ports of SAS/SATA/NVMe internal connectivity and either x8 or x16 PCIe Gen 4 host interfaces, are in production released. Also available is a refreshed cable portfolio, which includes 24Gb SAS-4 and NVMe-ready cables providing validated end-to-end configuration coverage.

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