User`s guide

User Guide
48
www.bull.com
LSI SAS 3442E-R
The LSI SAS3442E-R four-port internal/four-port
external SAS/SATA PCI Express storage adapter
provides 300 MB/s bandwidth (600 MB/s, full
duplex) on each port for combined throughput of up
to 2.4 GB/s.
The storage adapter supports multi-volume OS
independent Integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E and 10E
without the need for special drivers. The
SAS3442E-R features PCI Express connectivity, removing the host bus bottleneck
from the parallel PCI busses.
Features
■ 3Gb/s per port
■ x4 internal SFF-8484 / x4 external SFF-8470 connectors
■ Integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E and 10E
■ 8-lane 2.5 Gb/s PCI Express
■ MD-2 small form-factor design
■ Connects to both SAS and SATA HDDs and tape drives
■ Allows more than 122 total end-point devices
■ Fusion-MPT architecture provides more than 140,000 I/Os per second
Note: refer to the Card User Guide for more information.