June 17, 2020 — Microchip Technology Inc. announced the Adaptec SmartRAID 3100E RAID adapters which are designed to provide hardware RAID protection for customer data in cost-sensitive end applications. The SmartRAID 3100E provides over 60 percent performance acceleration over Microchip’s prior-generation Adaptec Series 8E products at 40 percent power savings. The Adaptec SmartRAID 3100E series joins Microchip’s production-released family of PCIe Gen 3 SAS-3/SATA SmartRAID 3100 adapters. The SmartRAID 3100E adapters are designed for systems desiring application acceleration from caching support and entry-level enterprise RAID data protection without the cost of cache protection or advanced RAID levels of full-featured RAID adapters.
Entry-level SmartRAID 3100E RAID adapters are suited for applications such as computing and graphical applications, edge compute and storage nodes, and industrial and manufacturing servers. Enterprises and cloud service providers now have the option to update the popular Adaptec Series 6E and Series 8E RAID adapters to the Smart Storage platform for these applications and benefit from the unified drivers, firmware and management tools across the Smart Storage family. The SmartRAID 3100E adapters share the common Smart Storage deployment tools such as the Adaptec maxView Storage Manager and the open-source, software-defined storage plug-ins.
Public firmware, software and documentation are available at www.adaptec.com/support .
