
The 48300 is a SAS host bus adapter that was designed for the PCI-X bus. Still, PCI-X is the dominating interface in the server space, although more and more motherboard products come with PCI Express core logic.
PCI-X at 133 MHz as used by the Adaptec SAS 48300 provides an interface throughput of 1.06 GB/s, which is definitely fast enough, unless the PCI-X bus is being shared by multiple devices. If a lower speed device is plugged in, all other PCI-X devices have to switch down the clock speed to match this lowest common bus speed. Making sure that a PCI-X controller has a PCI-X bridge of its own is the safe way to maintain maximum bandwidth.
Adaptec offers the SAS 4800 for the low- to mid-range server and workstation space. At a MSRP of $360, it is reasonably priced and it supports Adaptec's HostRAID feature, which is a system powered basic RAID implementation. RAID levels 0, 1 and 10 are offered. The card features one internal SFF8470 quad link connector and a second SFF8484 connector featuring four external SAS links, for a total of eight links.
The card fits into a 2U rack mount server with a low-profile bracket included. It also comes with a driver CD, a quick installation manual as well as a four-port SAS fanout cable that connects up to four system drives to the adapter board.


- SAS Raises Storage Capabilities To Higher Power
- SCSI's Details And History
- From SATA
- SAS
- Expanders
- SAS Backplanes & Cables
- SAS As Part Of SAN Storage Solutions
- 2.5" SAS Hard Drives
- Fujitsu MAY2073RC
- 3.5" SAS Hard Drives
- Hitachi UltraStar 15K147 SAS (HUS151414VLS300)
- Maxtor Atlas 15KII
- Seagate Cheetah 15K.4B 147 GB (ST3146854SS)
- Host Adapters
- Adaptec SAS 48300
- RAID Adapters
- LSI Logic SAS3442X
- SAS Appliances And Enclosures
- Storage System
- Adaptec SANbloc S50 JBOD, Continued
- Test Setup
- Hard Drive Test Results
- 3.5" SAS Data Transfer Diagrams
- Data Transfer Performance
- Access Time
- I/O Performance
- SAS RAID Test Results (4 And 10 Drive Arrays)
- Conclusion
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0 Hidewdanforth , September 10, 2008 2:52 AMThank you for the SAS lesson.
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0 Hidevinay_20 , December 12, 2011 11:44 AMIt was a nice jest for SAS.