6-Port Internal 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID Adapter

The ExpressSAS R60F 16-Port Internal 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID Adapter from ATTO Technology offers the fastest available connectivity to SAS or SATA storage with integrated RAID protection. The adapter provides 6 Gbps SAS/SATA connectivity to Direct Attached Storage via 16 internal ports. With transfer rates of up to 1200MBps per port, the 6Gbps SAS/SATA RAID Adapter is well suited for high-bandwidth workflows, such as digital content creation, streaming video and audio, transactional databases and email and Web servers.

The 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID Adapter combines advanced engineering and innovative features to ensure smooth data transfers and consistent performance. Leveraging ATTO's market-tested RAID stack and exclusive latency management features, this adapter helps customers create, share and protect data and digital assets more effectively.

Long-Standing RAID Experience
The ExpressSAS 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID adapter features the time-proven ATTO RAID Stack, DVRAID and CacheAssure, proprietary technologies developed to provide the most robust RAID based connectivity solution in the industry.

Flexible Connectivity Solutions
The ExpressSAS 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID adapter is ideal for a wide variety of IT and digital media environments that require high-performance and parity RAID protected data. This adapter offers driver support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X that provides a single connectivity solution for customers with heterogeneous operating system environments.

Performance Engineered
The ExpressSAS 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID adapter allows you to instantly protect their critical data while enhancing performance. It is designed to maintain full performance in degraded mode and to minimize downtime with 50% faster rebuilds, limiting exposure to a second drive failure. Its latency management features like Advanced Data Streaming (ADS) Technology and DriveAssure minimize data transfer interruptions to ensure the highest level of consistent performance.

Advanced Management Tools
The Configuration Tool features an intuitive GUI that simplifies RAID group configuration, management and monitoring. The ExpressSAS 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID adapter offers the most advanced performance tuning capabilities and troubleshooting utilities, providing users with sophisticated diagnostics and the flexibility to control settings for specific applications.

Applications
The ExpressSAS RAID adapter adds high-performance RAID data protection to direct-attached SAS and SATA JBOD storage. It is an ideal connectivity solution for high-performance media and entertainment and general IT environments. The adapter delivers affordable host-level RAID for high-bandwidth workflows such as digital content creation, streaming video, transactional databases and email and Web servers.

Advanced Data Streaming (ADS)

The Latency-management technology that controls the acceleration of data transfers to move large amounts of data faster and more efficiently.

DriveAssure Technology
Drive assessment and latency management technology that minimizes the likelihood of RAID groups becoming degraded or taken offline due to slow drives, ensuring uninterrupted access to data.

CacheAssure Technology
The ExpressSAS 6 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID adapter's flash-based protection module provides a maintenance-free solution that safeguard against the loss of cached data during a power or system failure.

Data Recovery Mode
The adapter features mechanism that increases the probability of fully or partially recovering data that is lost due to a disk failure and offline RAID group.

User Benefits

Product Highlights

• High performance host-based RAID for direct attached storage
• Four port configurations for flexible connectivity
• Full performance in degraded or rebuild mode
• Flash-based cache protection protects against lost data during power or system failure
• More options for retrieving data from a failed drive with Data Recovery mode
• 50% faster rebuilds
• Efficient scalability with host-level RAID
• Maintain high priority workflows with tunable rebuilds
• RAID group partitioning for better management