Product Brief Avago SAS 9300 12Gb/s SAS Host Bus Adapter Family For applications demanding high levels of storage connectivity and Key Features performance, 8 and 4-port 12Gb/s SAS HBAs connect servers and Eight/four ports of 12Gb/s SAS + SATA appliances to internal and external storage, achieving over 1 million IOPS. ports Eight lanes of PCI Express 3.0 Overview Low-profi le form factor The SAS 9300 8 and 4-port, 12Gb/s SAS host bus adapter family provides increased Mini-SAS HD connectors connectivity and maximum performance for high-end servers and appliances within internal SAS 3008 12Gb/s SAS+SATA controller storage, or connecting to large scale storage enclosures. Supports SSDs, HDDs, and tape drives Key Advantages The SAS 9300 HBA family is based on the SAS 3008 IO controller, integrating the latest enhancements in SAS and PCI Express technology. Each host bus adapter also supports 8 Provides connectivity in a low-profi le form factor or 4 SAS ports operating at 12Gb/s data transfer rates, and can reach over 1 million IOPs. The 8 lanes of PCI Express 3.0 provides 9300 adapter family supports 8 PCI Express lanes that comply with the latest PCI Express 3.0 fast signaling for high bandwidth applications specifi cations. In addition, these adapters are backwards compatible with previous SAS and High performance with 12Gb/s SAS PCIe generations through automatic negotiation, and provide SAS data transfer rates of 12, 6, data transfer rates and 3 Gb/s per lane, and SATA data transfer rates of 6 and 3Gb/s per lane. Avago Technologies provides a broad suite of industry standard operating system drivers. Avago Storage by LSI Avago Technologies products serve four primary target markets: wireless communications, wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial. Avago Storage by LSI o ers the industrys broadest portfolio of storage solutions, backed by decades of experience and trusted by the worlds leading server and storage suppliers. Avago provides the building blocks for storage solutions that help customers understand, prioritize, store and protect critical data. The Avago 12Gb/s SAS portfolio includes MegaRAID controller cards, host bus adapters (HBAs), advanced software options, Syncro shared DAS solutions and SAS storage ICs, including RAID-on-Chip (ROCs), I/O controllers and expanders. Fusion-MPT Architecture Fusion-MPT architecture marks the next generation of I/O architecture designed to deliver the highest performance available today while reducing time to market, integration, and certifi cation time. Fusion-MPT devices are high performance, cost-e ective protocol controllers that represent the newest system- level integration technology in intelligent I/O processors from Avago.Product Brief SAS9300-8e SAS9300-8i SAS9300-4i4e SAS9300-4i IO Controller SAS 3008 Fusion MPT 2.5 SAS 3008 Fusion MPT 2.5 SAS 3008 Fusion MPT 2.5 SAS 3004 Fusion MPT 2.5 Port Count 8 port, external 8 port, internal 4 port ext/4 port int 4 port internal Connectors Mini SAS HD Mini SAS HD Mini SAS HD Mini SAS HD SFF8644 Two (x4) SFF8643 Two (x4) SFF8644 One (x4), SFF8643 One (x4) SFF8643 One (x4) Storage Connectivity Data 12Gb/s SAS 3.0 Compliant 12Gb/s SAS 3.0 Compliant 12Gb/s SAS 3.0 Compliant 12Gb/s SAS 3.0 Compliant Transfer Rates SAS Bandwidth Half Duplex (x8 wide bus) Half Duplex (x8 wide bus) Half Duplex (x8 wide bus) Half Duplex (x4 wide bus) 9600 MB/s 9600 MB/s 9600 MB/s 4800 MB/s Port Configurations 8 ea, x1 ports (individual drives) 8 ea, x1 ports (individual drives) 8 ea, x1 ports (individual drives) 4 ea, x1 ports (individual drives) 2 ea, x4 wide port 2 ea, x4 wide port 2 ea, x4 wide port 1 ea, x4 wide port Host Bus x8 lane, PCIe 3.0 x8 lane, PCIe 3.0 x8 lane, PCIe 3.0 x8 lane, PCIe 3.0 PCI Data Burst Half Duplex Half Duplex Half Duplex Half Duplex Transfer Rates x8, PCIe 3.0, 8000 MB/s x8, PCIe 3.0, 8000 MB/s x8, PCIe 3.0, 8000 MB/s x8, PCIe 3.0, 8000 MB/s Form Factor Low Profile Low Profile Low Profile Low Profile Physical Dimensions 2.6 x 6.6 2.6 x 6.0 2.6 x 6.0 2.6 x 6.0 Brackets Full Height and low profile vented Full Height and low profile vented Full Height and low profile vented Full Height and low profile vented Cable Support Passive Copper Passive Copper Passive Copper Passive Copper Active Optical Active Optical (Ext only) LED Management Reference SFF-8485 (SGPIO) compliant Reference SFF-8485 (SGPIO) compliant Reference SFF-8485 (SGPIO) compliant Operating Voltage +12V +/-8% 3.3V +/-9% +12V +/-8% 3.3V +/-9% +12V +/-8% 3.3V +/-9% +12V +/-8% 3.3V +/-9% PCI Power (Nominal) 14.5W 13W 14.2W 10.2W Device Support 1024 Non-RAID devices 1024 Non-RAID devices 1024 Non-RAID devices 1024 Non-RAID devices Environmental Operating: 0C to 55C Operating: 0C to 55C Operating: 0C to 55C Operating: 0C to 55C Storage: -45C to 105C Storage: -45C to 105C Storage: -45C to 105C Storage: -45C to 105C 5 to 90% non-condensing 5 to 90% non-condensing 5 to 90% non-condensing 5 to 90% non-condensing Airflow: 200 LFM Airflow: 200 LFM Airflow: 200 LFM Airflow: 200 LFM MTBF >2,800,000 hours >2,800,000 hours >2,800,000 hours >2,800,000 hours Regulatory Certifications EMC: Class B-US (CFR 47, P15B) Canada (ICES-00) Japan (V-3/02.04) Europe (EN55022/EN55024) Australia/New Zealand (AS/NZS 3548) Korea (N-B 2-0001-404) Safety: EN60950 RoHS WEEE OS Support Microsoft Windows, Linux (SuSE , Red Hat), Solaris, VMware, FreeBSD See www.lsi.com/support for details on versions * The HBA supports Solaris 10 and Oracle provides a built in driver installation of an Avago driver is not required. 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