Microchip Adaptec SmartRAID 4300 A New Era of NVMe RAID Controller Without Drive Connectivity
Cliff Robinson - 13
At FMS 2025, we saw the Microchip Adaptec SmartRAID 4300. This is a huge departure from legacy, as it does not have onboard drive connectivity
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The UCIe 3.0 spec is out with a big speed up for chiplet-based SoC designs by doubling transfer rates and adding new features
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Recently, we made a U-turn in deploying Arm-based all-flash storage servers and swapped to AMD EPYC. Our experience is what enterprises face









