Increasing performance, security and scalability - while simplifying storage management
Microchip Technology has announced the Adaptec Smart Storage PCIe Gen 4 NVMe Tri-Mode SmartRAID 3200 RAID Adapters, and Adaptec SmartHBA 2200 and Adaptec HBA 1200 Host Bus Adapters. These adapters enable next-generation NVMe and 24G SAS connectivity and manageability with market- leading performance while delivering new levels of security required for next-generation data centre 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 vice president of product marketing for Microchip's data centre solutions business unit. "These adapters set a new benchmark in the industry for storage adapter security and performance with the latest NVMe and 24G SAS media, as well as flexibility for supporting 12G SAS and 6G SATA SSDs and HDDs."
Microchip's Smart Storage adapters deliver between 8 to 32 ports of NVMe 4.0 and/or 24G SAS drive support and offer both x8 and x16 PCIe Gen 4 CPU interface options and up to a 4x performance improvement over previous generations. Advanced capabilities, like Dynamic Channel Multiplexing (DCM) SAS Link aggregation technology, deliver greater than 99% expander-attached link efficiency, dramatically improving the performance of high-density storage solutions.
The new adapters are powered by the Microchip's market-leading Smart Storage Stack and comprehensive management tools. This latest generation 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.
"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 centre or in the cloud," commented Currie Munce, vice president of Storage Solutions Architecture at Micron. "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."
"HDDs are expected to power the vast majority of exabytes stored in data centres through 2030 and beyond," added Sai Varanasi, Vice President of Product Line Management at Seagate Technology, the world’s leading manufacturer of HDDs. "Microchip's reliable and secure adapters, including support for multi-actuator devices, are key enablers for the latest data centre deployments."
Storage infrastructure requires both adapter-level and supply-chain security capabilities. This new generation of adapters includes the industry's broadest range of secure storage options with support for both Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and maxCrypto Controller-Based Encryption (CBE). These new 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.
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 now production released. Also available is a refreshed cable portfolio, which includes 24G SAS-4 and NVMe-ready cables providing validated end-to-end configuration coverage.
