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MegaRAID SATA 150 Storage Adapters User’s Guide 1-1
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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”
1.1 Overview of Main Adapter Features
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