- 3Gb/s per port
- Integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E and 10E
- 8-lane 2.5Gb/s PCI Express
- MD-2 small form-factor design
- Connects to both SAS and SATA HDDs and tape drives
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 buses.