Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 Series: A Revolutionary Leap in Enterprise Storage Performance
Adaptec unveils a new RAID card, capable of accommodating 32 NVMe PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 SSDs. The innovation showcases potential read speeds of 291GB/s at full capacity.
Adaptec, a leading provider of storage solutions, has unveiled the SmartRAID 4300 series, an enterprise-grade software-defined storage RAID card designed to deliver exceptional performance and scalability. The SmartRAID 4300 series boasts a 7x increase in I/O performance compared to its predecessors, thanks to its innovative disaggregated architecture.
The SmartRAID 4300 series supports PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 SSDs and can manage up to 64 logical drives/RAID arrays. When fully saturated with 32 SSDs, it can achieve sequential read speeds of up to 291 GB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 155 GB/s in a RAID 5 array in Linux.
One of the key features of the SmartRAID 4300 series is its ability to offload I/O data from the CPU, thereby boosting performance. It fits into a single PCIe x16 slot in a low-profile MD2 form factor, making it ideal for dense server configurations.
The SmartRAID 4300 series also offers robust security features such as hardware root of trust, secure boot/update, attestation, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) support, and pre-boot UEFI management. It supports native 4K sector and 512-byte NVMe devices, hot-plug support, hot-spare support, S.M.A.R.T. support, and a variety of RAID modes, including RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50.
In terms of power efficiency, the SmartRAID 4300 series employs intelligent processor core idling and autonomous power reduction techniques. It also boasts impressive rebuild times of up to 32 GB/s for reads and 22.6 GB/s for writes.
In summary, the Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 series represents a significant leap forward in enterprise storage solutions. Its disaggregated architecture improves throughput, reduces latency, and scales massively with modern PCIe infrastructures, making it a highly capable software-defined storage RAID solution optimized for the high demands of enterprise and AI-driven data centers.
Data-and-cloud-computing advancements have opened new possibilities for enterprise storage, and the Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 series leverages technology to deliver a software-defined storage RAID card optimized for these modern requirements. This technology-driven solution offers impressive performance, scalability, and energy efficiency while maintaining robust security features, making it an ideal choice for the security-conscious, high-performance, and power-efficient data centers of today and tomorrow.
