Adaptec ADAPTEC SMARTRAID 3254-16E E

The Adaptec SmartRAID 3200 family is the industry's most versatile, fully featured and secure full RAIDenabled Tri-Mode SAS/SATA/NVMe server storage peformance solution server OEM, storage systems, data center and enterprise customers.

The SmartRAID 3200 series of PCIe Gen 4 to Tri-mode RAID adapters come in a wide range of performance optimized configurations optimized for the lowest possible cost.

Built on Microchip's proven 5th generation storage controller, the SmartROC 3200, the SmartRAID 3200 product supports PCIe Gen 4 host interface adapters with media facing port variants for both internal and external Tri-mode connectivity. The SmartRAID 3200 Ultra products are specifically designed for the most demanding NVMe and multi-port SAS SSD applications. The SmartROC 3200 integrated PCIe Switch enables DirectPath technology - the industry's lowest latency and high bandwidth NVMe solution and the flexibility to support wide NVMe SSDs.

These industry first 24G SAS adapters support SAS-4 connectivity as well as Microchip's Dynamic Channel Multiplexing (DCM) technology that aggregates expander attached SAS or SATA hard drives onto 24G SAS infrastructure with near 100% link efficiency for unparalleled throughput. Native host adapter modes, RAID mode and mixed (RAID and HBA/raw devices) for all media types are also supported.

Microchip's Trusted Platform support delivers a new level of compute and supply chain security based on a hardware root of trust that is aligned with the Open Compute Security Project. Microchip has expanded on its unique maxCrypto Controller-Based Encryption (CBE) solution to support SAS, SATA, and now NVMe media.