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Overview:
Today’s newest external enclosure designs are based on architectures that support both SATA and SAS drives. The MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e and 9280DE-8e, with eight external SATA+SAS ports, are ideal for configuring these external enclosures with your choice of high performance SAS hard drives, high-capacity SATA hard drives or power-saving solid state drives (SSDs). With data transfer rates of up to 6Gb/s per port, the MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e and 9280DE-8e bring users new features and improved performance, while continuing to support all the features of the previous 3Gb/s SATA+SAS generation. These feature line controllers employ the latest in RAID-on- Chip technology, comply with the PCI Express 2.0 specification and provide additional data security using LSI™ SafeStore encryption services
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6Gb/s SAS is designed for backward compatibility with 3Gb/s SAS as well as with 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SATA hard drives. Regardless of the drive speed, 6Gb/s MegaRAID controllers will deliver significant performance improvements in both read and write applications as compared to their 3Gb/s predecessors. Other new features to the 6Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS controllers include greater signal integrity using Decision Feedback Equalization, support for more sophisticated
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