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 UNIFY YOUR SERIAL STORAGE OFFERINGS
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by Chris Angelini, Reseller Advocate Magazine
www.reselleradvocate.com
SELLING SAS CONTROLLERS IS THE WAY TO GO. The technology supports high-end SAS hard drives and entry-level SATA at the same time, plugged in to the same card. In the past, a SAS card with hardware acceleration and a robust RAID stack built-in would have cost your customer a heft premium.. Adaptec's new Unified Serial Architecture leverages both enterprise-class ingredients. However, it's aimed at SMB customers who might have previously taken the SATA-only route.
 ADAPTEC GOES UNIFIED
Imagine a product family so flexible that it addresses the contingent of businesses only interested in SATA, the organizations relying on SAS exclusively, and those in between, mixing and matching for the best possible value. With the unified serial controllers your customers enjoy benefits from both sides. The value-minded SMBs see features that were once too expensive, while the performance-oriented folks pay SATA-like prices. According to Suresh Panikar, director of marketing for Adaptec's Data Protection Solutions Group, that's exactly what the company's Unified Serial Architecture is designed to do.
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Exploring the Serial Landscape:
Adaptec's Unified Serial cards let you build storage solutions loaded with SAS and SATA hard drives, tailored to meet the unique needs of each customer. |
"Our Unified Serial Architecture provides a single lineup that can be used in a SATA environment, a SAS environment, or in a mixed setting. We focused on including the niceties that we were hearing customers wanted, like the low-profile form factors to fit in compact 1U servers. We also wanted to add value, so the Unified Serial RAID cards support extras like hot-plug capability, drive optimization, and path failover."
The idea of path failover will probably be a new one for many SMBs, since redundancy beyond the RAID level is usually reserved for high-end storage cards. Currently, most of the servers you build sport individual cables linking the controller to the hard drives. Should that path fail at either end, it'd be the same as if a disk had gone out. SAS drives, being the more enterprise-oriented option, sport two interface ports to support multiple paths. Although the feature is most relevant to cards with external connectivity, since those are the ones with cables that can be bumped and dislodged, all of Adaptec's Unified Serial Architecture PCIe cards support failover. Take a quick look at the family's datasheet for the full list of value-added extras. click for more
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