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Adaptec's Series 5 Unified Serial Controllers Dissected
 
Adaptec Turns Up The Heat On Unified Serial Storage
A  RAID  controller  certainly  isn't  a  product  that  users  buy  at  retail.
Although almost all controller products are indeed available through e-tail
and  retail  channels,  more  typical  customers  are  system  builders  who
require  the  controller  to  power  their  storage  solutions. The new Adaptec
Series 5 RAID controller family is designed to power workstations, servers
with  DAS  storage,  SAN  appliances,  NAS  storage  and  other  related
solutions,  which  are  crucial  for  small,  medium  and large businesses. We
wanted to know how the new combined SAS/SATA cards compare to the
established competition, and that's what we're going to find out.
Storage  controller  cards  were  once  an  essential  component  of PCs,
providing  the  basic  connectivity  for  drives  that is now built into chipsets.
No longer needed in that market, storage add-on cards have now moved
into business segments with specific applications. Servers and workstation
systems  typically  require  sophisticated  RAID  controllers;  high-end
desktops or enthusiast systems don't. But the current generation of RAID
controller  cards  is  not  only  powerful  and  extremely  flexible,  but  also
amazingly  scalable  -  they  can  be  used  with  low-cost  SATA  or  high-end
SAS 
hard drives,  hooking  up  drives  internally  or  externally. (Compare
Prices on Adaptec RAID Controllers)
Before  the  introduction  of  SAS  (Serial  Attached  SCSI),  a controller's
market  positioning  was  defined  purely  by its interface: UltraATA or SATA
controllers  were  entry-level  hardware  for  SMBs,  while  SCSI products
catered to enterprise applications due to their more sophisticated features
and flexible connectivity. Today, SAS controllers are referred to as Unified
Serial  controllers,  which  means  that  a  SAS  device  can  handle  and even
mix both SAS and SATA hard drives. Each SAS controller offers a certain
number  of  ports,  but  SAS  allows  you  to  run  four  300  MB/s  SAS
connections through a multi-lane cable for drives or expanders. SAS edge
expanders enable administrators to connect additional drive appliances to
create  a  so-called  SAS  domain.  All  drives  in  such  a  domain - which has
similarities  to  Ethernet  with  its  switches  -  are  managed  by  the Unified
Serial controller.
The  Unified  Serial  controller  market  must be differentiated based on port
count - since sophisticated models require tremendous internal bandwidth
- as well as feature set. Unified Serial RAID can also be created by having
the  system  processor  take  care  of  all  processing  workloads (host-based
RAID), or by providing dedicated hardware acceleration (hardware RAID).
Adaptec's  new  Series 5 PCI Express  RAID  controllers  are  based  on a 1.2
GHz  dual  core  storage  processor,  provide  a  very  comprehensive feature
set,  and  come  in  eight  different  flavors  with  four  to  28  ports in internal
and/or external port configurations. Let's look at them in detail.
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