Adaptec / Microchip

Adaptec was a computer storage company and remains a brand for computer storage products. The company was an independent firm from 1981 to 2010, at which point it was acquired by PMC-Sierra, which itself was later acquired by Microsemi, which itself was later acquired by Microchip Technology. The Orginal Adaptec Company has a 37-year track record of success built on the ability to simplify the latest storage technologies, making them affordable and accessible to the widest range of businesses, through solutions that combine hardware and software. Adaptec provides Trusted Storage Solutions that help businesses of all sizes move, manage and protect their data.

Accessories & Cables

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HBA (Host Bus Adapters)

A Host Bus Adapter (HBA) is an expansion card that plugs into a PCIe slot on the motherboard and provides fast, reliable non-RAID communication between the host system and the storage devices.

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RAID Controllers

A RAID controller card is similar to an HBA, but can also add redundancy (RAID) for your data, help optimise performance, reduce latency, or even make smart decisions on whether to store data on an HDD or an SSD cache, depending on user needs.

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SATA / SAS / eSATA - 12-32 Port - 6-12 Gb/s

These cards can be installed inside desktop PCs to provide professional-level storage capabilities. They use the increased speed offered by the PCI Express bus in order to facilitate super-fast RAID configurations, and the cards in this category include between 12 and 32 ports - perfect for the most demanding of corporate setups.

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SATA / SAS / eSATA - 3 Gb/s

These additional add-on cards enable to add more SATA/SAS/eSATA drives to your system to give more storage capacity according to the card type. Some of these cards also allow the use of RAID thus increasing the performance and data security.

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SATA / SAS / eSATA - 6-12 Gb/s

These controller cards are entry-level models that use a 1x PCI-E slot in order to provide faster SATA performance that any standard storage connector can provide. The products in this category have two connections for small-scale RAID arrays, and some work in Macs as well as PCs.

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SCSI / SAS Cables

A range of cables suitable for different types of SCSI/SAS Devices

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