Adaptec RAID Controllers

Full range of internal storage connectivity is provided by Adaptec through its RAID controllers. The performance, price, storage management and support provided by Adaptec are known to be world class. Adaptec RAID controllers mainly consist of:

Serial ATA
Ultra160 & 320
iSCSI
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

Reliability, data integrity, and complete hardware and software compatibility are the main features that have made Adaptec RAID the first choice for data protection. Some of the most common RAID controllers available at Adaptec are described in detail below.

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enjoys the 20 year evolution of SCSI protocol, carrying forward its trusted reliability and stable feature set over other serial attached devices. SAS is promising new levels of scalability cost effectiveness, robustness for data transportation, connectivity and data storage. Adaptec’s Serial attached RAID storage devices are world-known for their added features. SAS4805 and SAS4800 SCSI Adaptec provide RAID controller features. These are 8 ports serial attached devices that support RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, JBOD and the Adaptec Advanced Data Protection Suite with RAID 1E, 5EE, 6, 60, Copyback Hot Spare and optional Snapshot Backup for pedestal and high-density rack-mount servers.
Serial ATA (SATA)
Serial ATA is based on bus technology to provide high-speed data transference of data to and from hard drive. Adaptec offers a vast variety on Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controllers, the specifications of some are given as:

Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA: It’s a 4 Serial ATA port with 3GB per second speed. Works with Native Command Queuing, RAID 0, 1, and 10 for desktops, workstations and entry-level servers.
Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 2420SA: It’s a 4 ports Serial ATA II controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and the Adaptec Advanced Data Protection Suite, works for high-density rack-mount servers.
Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 2820SA: It’s a 8 port, Serial ATA II controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and the Adaptec Advanced Data Protection Suite.

Other SATA RAID Controllers include:

Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 1210SA: It’s a 2 serial ports with 32/66 MHz speed, compatible with RAID 0, 1, JBOD for desktops, workstations and sub-entry servers.
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 2020SA: It provides 0-channel RAID card that uses the SATA chip on the motherboard.
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 2025SA: It’s an innovative 0-channel Serial ATA RAID card frees up PCI slots in rack-mount servers
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 21610SA: This 16 serial port RAID controller provides 64/MHz speed and compatibility to RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, JBOD for mid-range servers and workgroups
Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 2810SA: The 8 serial ports, 64/66 MHz, with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, JBOD for mid-range servers and workgroups provides additional reliability and robustness.

Adaptec Controllers and other storage devices are considered ideal for storage consolidation, LAN-free and Server-free backups, remote replication and for disaster recovery.