The SmartROC 3100 16-port RAID-on-Chip controller offers industry-leading performance and power savings with support for hardware RAID 0/1/10/5/50/6/60 and native HBA modes. Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports with RAID 1 support are available. One GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB DDR4 memory with speeds up to 2133 MT/s, providing access to volume DDR at top-line performance are supported. The SmartRoC 3100 supports Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and a comprehensive set of management tools, including a GUI and CLI.

The 12 Gbps SmartROC 3100 controllers are featured on the 12 Gbps SmartRAID 3100 Series RAID Adapters.

For product comparison, please consider: PM8241, PM8240, PM8237, PM8205, PM8204

• 16 12Gbps SAS/SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 and 60 with hardware acceleration
• Two additional 6G SAS/SATA boot ports with RAID 1 support
• Native HBA modes
• Flexible configuration for RAID mode
• Supports 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB DDR4 memory with speeds up to 2133 MT/s, providing access to volume DDR at top-line performance
• Compatible with Smart Storage solution drivers for all major operating systems and Smart Storage solution unified management utilities
• SmartRAID Solution Features Flexible configuration for RAID mode
• Displays raw devices on connector
• RAID Build modes (Quick Initialization Background Initialization and Rapid Parity Initialization)
• SAS dual path failover (RAID stack managed Active/Standby)
• SMP commands using ARCCONF
• Dynamic sector repair
• Split mirror and combine
• Copyback hot spare
• Heal array and Move array
• Bootable array support
• Erase drive
• Configurable stripe size
• Bad stripe marking
• Hot spare support (dedicated, global, or predictive)
• Ultra-High Performance and Feature-Rich
• Persistent logging for RAID and HBA
• 4K native support for RAID and HBA
• Adapter power management modes
• Multiple LUN support
• Support for up to 238 raw devices
• Support for up to 238 target devices in RAID mode
• Supports up to 64 SAS/SATA logical/RAID volumes
• Up to 1.6M IOPS performance (4K random reads)
• Up to 145K IOPS RAID 5 performance (4K random writes)
• SAS expander support
• Transport Layer Retry (TLR) support
• Baseboard management controller (BMC) support with Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) over PCIe or I2C
• Enclosure Management: SES-2/3 SGPIO: SFF-8485; IBPI: SFF-8489; SGPIO as a virtual SES enclosure: SFF-8448
• Up to 6.9 GB/s bandwidth
• Up to 3.8 GB/s RAID 5 throughput
• Hot plug drive support
• S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic access
• Supports eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 to the host, each lane supporting PCIe Gen 3 rates up to 8.0 Gbps
• SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• Storage Management Utilities
• MaxView GUI
• ARCCONF CLI
• Event Monitor (event logging and email alerts)
• VSphere plug-in
• OpenStack plug-in
• Smart Storage Administrator CLI
• Third-Generation Green Backup
• Integrated controller automatically backs up DDR cache to NAND flash after a power failure
• ONFi 1.0, 2.x, and 3.0
• Tools for Setup and Troubleshooting
• UEFI HII configuration tool
• CTRL-A Legacy BIOS configuration tool
• ChipLink diagnostic tools
• Operating System Support
• Extensive operating system supports includes major software releases for Microsoft Windows/Server, VMware ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, XenServer, Fedora, Debian, and Solaris
• Certification for Microsoft WHQL, VMware IOVP, and VMwareVSAN
• High-Speed I/O
• x8 PCIe Gen 3 8 GT/s (supporting 8 GT/s, 5 GT/s, 2.5 GT/s)
• PCIe-compliant link training and manual PHY configuration
• 16x SAS-3 PHYs for high-speed targets (SAS 12 Gbps, 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, or SATA 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps)
• 2x SAS-2 PHYs for boot devices (SAS 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, or SATA 6 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1.5 Gbps)
• SAS or SATA operation on a per-PHY basis
• Independent per-channel selectable high-speed outputs support multiple programmable levels of pre-emphasis and output swing
• Multiple programmable levels of receive equalization
• Integrated resistive termination
• Automatic negotiation of link speed
• Decision Feedback Equalizer provides robust recovery of 12 Gbps SAS signals over lossy channels
• Peripheral I/O Interfaces ( Note: Some peripheral I/O interface pins are multiplexed)
• Eight multi-master and seven master-only two-wire interfaces (TWIs) support variable bit rates up to 400 Kbps
• Two industry-standard 16750 UARTs
• Seven SFF-8485-compliant serial GPIO (SGPIO) ports
• Up to 30 GPIO ports depending on SGPIO port configuration
• Firmware API for peripheral control, including features such as activity LED, UART configuration, zoning configuration, interprocessor communications, and enclosure control