The SAS3041E four-port, host bus adapter is ideal for storage connectivity of SAS and SATA drives in high performance workstations. The adapter doubles the performance of today's dual channel Ultra320 SCSI with aggregate bandwidth of 1.2GB/s. LSI Logic's SAS HBA's are ideal for today's data centers and leverages existing SCSI software investment and offers ease of migration. The serial interface allows for point-to-point connection offering higher performance, increased aggregate bandwidth, higher availability with dual ported drives, and enhanced reliability when compared to parallel SCSI.
The SAS interface provides universal interconnect with Serial ATA, while still offering logical SCSI compatibility along with the reliability, performance and manageability when using SAS drives. Common electrical and physical connection allows for the application to dictate the interface technology of choice for disk drives.
With PCI-E throughput of 1.0 GBps, these adapters capitalize on maximum system performance for those workstations needing it. It also utilizes Fusion-MPT architecture that allows for thinner drivers for better performance (up to 140,000 I/Os per sec) while adding value and flexibility at the firmware level.
Fusion-MPT architecture provides outstanding performance, binary compatibility of host software and significantly reduces software development time. With advanced architecture, SAS3041E adapter can be quickly adapted to respond to emerging I/O interfaces. NCQ (Native Command Queuing) is not supported on this card at this time.
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