Introduction; Chapter 1 Introduction; Overview Of Main Adapter Features - LSI MegaRAID SATA 150 User Manual

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Overview of Main Adapter Features

Chapter 1

Introduction

This chapter introduces the MegaRAID SATA 150 PCI to Serial ATA
storage adapters and consists of the following sections:
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Section 1.1, "Overview of Main Adapter Features"
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Section 1.2, "SATA 150 Storage Adapter Characteristics"
The MegaRAID SATA 150 storage adapters provide a high-performance
Intelligent PCI to High Speed Serialized AT Attachment (PCI-to-Serial
ATA) interface with RAID control capabilities. These storage adapters
provide reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem
management.
You can install a SATA 150 adapter on a PCI bus and use it to connect
Serial ATA drives to the host computer over a Serial ATA bus. SATA 150
storage adapters are an ideal RAID solution for the internal storage
requirements of workgroup, departmental, and enterprise systems. SATA
150 storage adapters offer a cost-effective way to implement RAID in a
server.
MegaRAID SATA storage adapters support six, four or two Serial ATA
ports. A single Serial ATA device can be connected to each port.
Note: The MegaRAID SATA 150-2 is no longer available.
The following are descriptions of the SATA 150 adapters:
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The MegaRAID SATA 150-6 intelligent RAID controller and storage
adapter uses three Silicon Image SiI3112A chips to support six Serial
ATA ports. The Intel 80302 processor provides the intelligent RAID
MegaRAID SATA 150 Storage Adapters User's Guide
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