Adaptec ha pubblicato una news in cui anticipa qualche caratteristica controller per dischi s-ata su bus Pci-e:

Adaptec Launches the Industry's Broadest Family of Unified Serial(TM) RAID Controllers for the PCI Express Interface.


Features and Benefits
-- Unified Serial Architecture enables the use of both SATA and SAS hard
disk drives for optimal flexibility, capacity and performance options;

-- Supports PCIe host interface with up to 256MB ECC-protected data cache

-- Adaptec RAID Code (ARC) delivers the industry's most advanced feature
set. In addition to standard RAID levels (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10,
and RAID 50), the Adaptec Advanced Data Protection Suite delivers improved
hot spare performance (RAID 5EE) and a patented RAID 6/60 technology
allowing for up to two simultaneous drive failures.

-- Supports array sizes up to 512TB -- allowing full usage of new, higher
capacity SATA drives

-- Utilizes the Adaptec Storage Manager, a next-generation storage
management software that runs on all Adaptec controllers for optimizing
RAID data volumes, disk utilization, provisioning, diagnostics and storage
expansion.

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