The series 5Z family of high-performance Adaptec Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID controllers offers both high I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing for use with cost-effective, high-capacity SATA drives or high-performance SAS drives.
The Adaptec RAID 5445Z utilizes industry-leading dual core RAID on Chip (ROC), 512MB of DDR2 write cache, and connectivity with the x8 PCI-Express to deliver over 250,000 I/Os 1.2GBs.
The Adaptec RAID 5445Z supports a broad range of operating systems, compatibility with more than 300 third-party devices, and full integration with Adaptec Storage Manager for centralized management of all Adaptec RAID controllers on the network.