The Microchip SmartROC 3200e 8x8 RAID-on-Chip controller is the industry's most versatile, fully-featured, and secure RAID-enabled NVMe/SAS/SATA server storage performance solution. This controller offers up to x8 PCIe Gen 4 connectivity to the host CPU, 8 storage lanes, 72-bit DDR4 of memory, new security features, and advanced manageability through industry-standard interfaces. This SmartROC 3200 controller variant also delivers the industry's only RAID-on-Chip controller with controller-based encryption for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs, SAS-4 media, and SATA media.
Additional Features
Tri-Mode Support
Automatic PCIe Gen-4, SAS-4, and SATA detection and link speed negotiation to enable universal bay architectures
Various RAID, HBA, or transparent modes selectable per drive
NVMe Storage Management
Integrated Switchtec PCIe Gen 2 (5 GT/s), Gen 3 (8 GT/s) and Gen 4 (16 GT/s) Switch
Low latency to NVMe targets in native or RAID modes
PCIe error containment (including downstream port containment, upstream error containment, completion timeout synthesis and poisoned TLP blocking)
8 lanes of NVMe media support, down to ×1 bifurcation
8-lane host support
SAS Storage Management
Each PHY supports 24G SAS-4 with up to 2.4 Gbps bandwidth
DCM for near 100% efficient bandwidth aggregation for all SAS/SATA drive rates over SAS-4 links
Performance
>3.3M 4K RR IOPs and up to 26 GBps bandwidth
Smart Storage Solutions Software
Driver and unified management utilities for all major operating systems
maxView GUI and ARCCONF CLI for management
UEFI pre-boot with GUI and CLI support
Autonomous event monitor
Third-party plugins, including vSphere and OpenStack
Security and Data Protection
Supports all RAID levels (0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60)
Hardware root-of-trust Secure Boot and Secure Update
Hardware assist for error recovery
Secure Key Encryption Key (KEK) Management
FIPS 140-2, Levels 1–3 certifiable
SAS and NVMe encryption (IEEE 1619-compliant AES-XTS for data-at-rest encryption)
The Microchip SmartROC 3200e 8x8 RAID-on-Chip controller is the industry's most versatile, fully-featured, and secure RAID-enabled NVMe/SAS/SATA server storage performance solution. This controller offers up to x8 PCIe Gen 4 connectivity to the host CPU, 8 storage lanes, 72-bit DDR4 of memory, new security features, and advanced manageability through industry-standard interfaces. This SmartROC 3200 controller variant also delivers the industry's only RAID-on-Chip controller with controller-based encryption for PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs, SAS-4 media, and SATA media.
Additional Features
- Tri-Mode Support
- Automatic PCIe Gen-4, SAS-4, and SATA detection and link speed negotiation to enable universal bay architectures
- Various RAID, HBA, or transparent modes selectable per drive
- NVMe Storage Management
- Integrated Switchtec PCIe Gen 2 (5 GT/s), Gen 3 (8 GT/s) and Gen 4 (16 GT/s) Switch
- Low latency to NVMe targets in native or RAID modes
- PCIe error containment (including downstream port containment, upstream error containment, completion timeout synthesis and poisoned TLP blocking)
- 8 lanes of NVMe media support, down to ×1 bifurcation
- 8-lane host support
- SAS Storage Management
- Each PHY supports 24G SAS-4 with up to 2.4 Gbps bandwidth
- DCM for near 100% efficient bandwidth aggregation for all SAS/SATA drive rates over SAS-4 links
- Performance
- >3.3M 4K RR IOPs and up to 26 GBps bandwidth
- Smart Storage Solutions Software
- Driver and unified management utilities for all major operating systems
- maxView GUI and ARCCONF CLI for management
- UEFI pre-boot with GUI and CLI support
- Autonomous event monitor
- Third-party plugins, including vSphere and OpenStack
- Security and Data Protection
- Supports all RAID levels (0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60)
- Hardware root-of-trust Secure Boot and Secure Update
- Hardware assist for error recovery
- Secure Key Encryption Key (KEK) Management
- FIPS 140-2, Levels 1–3 certifiable
- SAS and NVMe encryption (IEEE 1619-compliant AES-XTS for data-at-rest encryption)
