The Microchip SmartROC 3200 16x32 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 x16 PCIe Gen 4 connectivity to the host CPU, 32 storage lanes, 72-bit DDR4 of memory, new security features, and advanced manageability through industry-standard interfaces.
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)
32 lanes of NVMe media support, down to ×1 bifurcation
16-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
>3.6M 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
The Microchip SmartROC 3200 16x32 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 x16 PCIe Gen 4 connectivity to the host CPU, 32 storage lanes, 72-bit DDR4 of memory, new security features, and advanced manageability through industry-standard interfaces.
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)
- 32 lanes of NVMe media support, down to ×1 bifurcation
- 16-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
- >3.6M 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
