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The Adaptec® SmartRAID 3200 family is the industry's

most versatile, fully featured and secure full RAID enabled

Tri-Mode SAS/SATA/NVMe server storage

performance solution for server OEM, storage systems,

data center and enterprise customers.

The SmartRAID 3200 series of PCIe® Gen 4 to Tri-mode

RAID adapters come in a wide range of performance

optimized configurations optimized for the lowest

possible cost.

Built on Microchip's proven 5th generation storage controller,

the SmartROC 3200, the SmartRAID 3200 product

supports both x8 and x16 PCIe Gen 4 host interface

adapters with 32, 16, and 8 media facing port variants for

both internal and external Tri-mode connectivity. The

SmartRAID 3200 Ultra products are specifically designed

for the most demanding NVMe and multi-port SAS SSD

applications. The SmartROC 3200 integrated PCIe Switch

enables DirectPath technology - the industry's lowest

latency and high bandwidth NVMe solution and the flexibility

to support x1, x2, x4, and x8 wide NVMe SSDs.

These industry first 24G SAS adapters support SAS-4

connectivity as well as Microchip's Dynamic Channel

Multiplexing (DCM) technology that aggregates

expander attached SAS or SATA hard drives onto 24G

SAS infrastructure with near 100% link efficiency for

unparalleled throughput. Native host adapter modes,

RAID mode and mixed (RAID and HBA/raw devices) for

all media types are also supported.

Microchip’s Trusted Platform support delivers a new level

of compute and supply chain security based on a hardware

root of trust that is aligned with the Open Compute

Security Project. Microchip has expanded on its unique

maxCrypto™ Controller-Based Encryption (CBE) solution

to support SAS, SATA, and now NVMe media.