Adaptec Series 5 Unified Serial™ Controllers

Next-generation Unified Serial™ Controllers Deliver Performance for High-Capacity SATA Drives and High-End SAS Drives

Adaptec next-generation Unified Serial controllers deliver both high I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing for use with cost-effective, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives or high-performance Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives, or both attached to the same controller. With an industryleading dual core RAID on Chip (ROC), DDR2 533MHz write cache, support for up to 256 SATA/SAS devices (using SAS expanders), and an x8 PCI express host interface bus connection, this family of Adaptec Unified Serial controllers delivers impressiveperformance numbers — over 250,000 I/Os and 1.2GB/s. These controllers are ideal for enterprise-class storage applications that call for maximum performance, scalability and flexibility.

Advanced data protection
Designed to provide maximum performance and reliability,Adaptec RAID Code (ARC), available with Adaptec hardware RAID controllers, offers RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50 and 60. ARC also offers features such as RAID Level Migration (the ability to easily migrate RAID levels), Online Capacity Expansion (expand capacity without powering down the server), and Copyback Hot Spare (when a failed drive has been replaced, data is automatically copied from the hot spare back to the restored drive, allowing the hot spare to remain in the same spot). ARC supports array sizes up to 512TB—taking advantage of new, higher-capacity disk drives and modern operating systems.