9500 Series PCIe Gen 4.0 Tri-Mode Storage HBAs

The Broadcom HBA 9500 series of 12Gb/s SAS/SATA/PCIe (NVMe) Gen4 Tri-Mode storage adapters provides system and server OEMs and data centers with unprecedented flexibility and high performance at the lowest cost. Utilizing Broadcom’s Tri-Mode SerDes technology, the HBAs enable the operation of NVMe, SAS, or SATA devices in a single drive bay, allowing for endless design flexibility.

Based on the Broadcom SAS3816 and SAS3808 eight-lane host PCIe to SAS/SATA/PCIe IOC controllers, the 9500 series adapters are the first HBAs to offer both PCIe Gen 4.0 host and PCIe Gen 4.0 storage interfaces. PCIe Gen 4.0 enables these adapters for high bandwidth by delivering twice the bandwidth and 75% more IOPs.

Key Features

• Tri-Mode Storage Interface: 12Gb/s SAS; 6Gb/s SATA; Gen 4.0 PCIe (NVMe)
• Hardware Secure Boot
• Universal Bay Management (UBM) ready (SFF-TA-1005)
• 13,700 MBs (256K Seq Rd)
• 3M IOPs (4K RR)
• x8 PCIe Gen 4.0 Host Interface: Supports x8, x4, x2, x1 PCIe lanes at a transfer rate up to 16.0 GT/s per lane, full duplex, Lane and polarity reversal
• SFF-9402 Compliant Connector Pin-out
• Up to 1024 SAS/SATA devices
• Up to 32 NVMe devices
• Form Factor Friendly Cable Exit

Applications: High-port direct attached connectivity applications; Enterprise Databases; Analytics Applications; Medical Imaging; Media Applications; Flexible solutions for cloud computing