Microsemi Adaptec 6805 8-port SAS RAID Controller - Serial ATA/600 - PCI Express x8 - Plug-in Card - RAID Supported - 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60, JBOD RAID Level - 2 Total SAS Port(s) - 2 SAS Port(s) Internal Battery Backup

The Series 6 family of high-performance Microsemi Adaptec Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID controllers offers maximum performance, scalability and reliability. With the enhanced bandwidth of its 6 Gb/s SAS2.0 interfaces and the PCIe Gen2 host connection it offers up to 60% higher sustained sequential throughput than previous generation controllers.

Based on PMC-Sierra's market-leading, multi-core SRC 8x6G RAID-on-Chip (RoC) the Microsemi Adaptec RAID 6805 can deliver up to 2 GB/s sustained data transfer rate to the host. Peak performance is up to 4.8GB/s through the SAS 2.0 interfaces and 4.0GB/s through the PCIe Gen2 host interface. Using SAS expanders, it can connect up to 256 SATA/SAS.

The Microsemi Adaptec RAID 6805 supports a broad range of operating systems, compatibility with more than 300 third-party devices, and full integration with Microsemi Adaptec Storage Manager for centralized management of all MicrosemiAdaptec RAID controllers on the network.