Applications
• High-port count SAS/SATA/NVMe controllers for direct-attached highconnectivity applications
• Tri-Mode connectivity enabling maximum data center flexibility
• Flexible solutions for cloud computing
• External storage requiring highconnectivity SAS/SATA interface for host or drive side connect
Key Features
• Tri-Mode storage interface ports
− SFF-8680 bay
− x1 SAS
− x1 SATA
− x2 SAS (multi-link)
− Two x1 SAS (dual port using MPIO)
− SFF-8639 (U.2) bay
− x2, x4 NVMe
• Supports 12, 6, and 3 Gb/s SAS and 6 and 3 Gb/s SATA data transfer rates
• Up to 8 storage interface PCIe links. Each link supports x4 or x2* link widths up to 8.0 GT/s (PCIe 3.0) per lane
• SFF-9402 compliant, connector pin-out
• SFF-8485 compliant, SGPIO
• RAID levels 0, 1, 5,10, 50
• CacheVault™ flash back-up at power fail
− Supports bad block management
• PCIe 3.1 host interface
− Supports x8, x4, x2, and x1 PCIe lanes at a transfer rate up to 8.0 GT/s per lane, full duplex
− Lane and polarity reversal − Variable PCIe bandwidth negotiation
