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B&H# ATESASR680 Mfr# ESAS-R680-000
  • Price: $1,018.35
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The ATTO Technology ExpressSAS R680 8-External Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapter adds high-performance RAID protection to direct attached SAS and SATA JBOD storage. Delivering significant advancements in performance and flexibility with enterprise-class features, ExpressSAS R680 provides an affordable and reliable transition from 3 to 6Gb/s SAS/SATA storage infrastructures in general IT, media and entertainment environments.

The ExpressSAS R680 provides 6Gb/s SAS/SATA connectivity to Direct Attached Storage via 8 external ports. With transfer rates of upto 1200MB/s per port, the ExpressSAS R680 is well suited for high-bandwidth workflows, such as digital content creation, streaming video and audio, transactional databases, and email and web servers.

The ExpressSAS R680 combines advanced engineering and innovative features to ensure smooth data transfers and consistent performance. Leveraging ATTO's market-tested RAID stack and exclusive latency management features, the ExpressSAS R680 helps customers create, share and protect data and digital assets more effectively.

RAID Levels Supported
ExpressSAS R680 supports RAID Levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 40, 50, 60 and DVRAID, an advanced RAID level for digital video environments* 1
Long-Standing RAID Experience
ExpressSAS R680 features the time-proven ATTO RAID Stack, DVRAID and CacheAssure, proprietary technology developed to provide the most robust RAID based connectivity solution in the industry.
Flexible Connectivity Solutions
The ExpressSAS R680 is ideal for a wide variety of IT and digital media environments requiring high-performance and parity RAID protected data. ExpressSAS R680 offers driver support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, providing a single connectivity solution for customers with heterogeneous operating system environments.
Performance Engineered
The ExpressSAS R680 allows users to instantly protect their critical data while enhancing performance. ExpressSAS R680 is designed to maintain full performance in degraded mode and to minimize downtime with 50% faster rebuilds, limiting exposure to a second drive failure.
Advanced Management Tools
The ExpressSAS R680 Adapter's easy-to-use configuration tool features an intuitive GUI that simplifies RAID group configuration, management and monitoring. It also offers the most advanced performance tuning capabilities and troubleshooting utilities, providing users with sophisticated diagnostics and the flexibility to control settings for specific applications.
Advanced Data Streaming Technology
Latency-management technology that controls the acceleration of data transfers to move large amounts of data faster and more efficiently.
DriveAssure Technology
Drive assessment and latency management technology that prevents premature drive failures to ensure uninterrupted access to data.
CacheAssure Technology
NV cache data protection module providing a maintenance-free solution that safeguards against the loss of cached data during a power or system failure.
Data Recovery Mode
Mechanism that increases the probability of fully or partially recovering data that is lost due to a disk failure and offline RAID group.
Ports 8 External
Bus Specifications x8 PCI express 2.0 host interface
Form Factor Low profile
Connectors 2 mini SAS (x4) SFF 8088 External
User Benefits High performance host-based RAID for direct attached storage
Four port configurations for flexible connectivity
Full performance in degraded or rebuild mode
Flash-based cache protection protects against lost data during power or system failure
More options for retrieving data from a failed drive with data recovery mode
50% faster rebuilds
Efficient scalability with host-level RAID
Maintain high priority workflows with tunable rebuilds
RAID group partitioning for better management
Management Tools User-friendly GUI for quick and easy RAID setup
Command line interface for advanced functionality
ATTO config tool: BIOS-based RAID management and configuration utility
Connectivity External: x4 mini SAS connectors
Low profile form factor; Full-height bracket included
Operating System Support Windows Server 2003, 2008
Windows XP, Vista, 7
SUSE Linux
RedHat Linux
Mac OS X (10.4.x - 10.6.x)
Agency Approvals and Compliance FCC part 15, subpart B, Class B
EN55024: 1998 + A1: 2001 + A2: 2003
EN55022: 2006, Class B
EN60950-1: 2001
RoHS-6 compliant
RAID Features and Functionality SAS 2.0, SAS, SATA and SATA II support
RAID Levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 40, 50, 60, JBOD, DVRAID
ATTO RAID stack
Command coalescing
Staggered drive spin-up
RAID level migration
Hot swap with auto rebuild
Online performance metrics and event logs
Native command queuing
512MB ECC protected cache memory
SES, SNMP and S.M.A.R.T. support
Pass-through support for tape and tape devices
Configurable stripe size
Online capacity expansion
Global and dedicated hot spares
Automatic and tunable online rebuilds
N-way mirroring
Operating Temperature 32 - 104° F (0 - 40° C)
Storage Temperature -40 - 157° F (-40 - 70° C)
Operating Humidity 10 - 90% non-condensing
Storage Humidity 5 - 95% non-condensing
Operating Voltage 9.6W (typical)
Air Flow 150 lf/m (min) recommended
Dimensions (LxH) 6.60 x 2.71" (16.76 X 6.88 cm)
Weight Not specified by the manufacturer
ATTO Technology ExpressSAS R680 8-External Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Adapter
  • Full-height Bracket
  • Firmware CD
  • 3 Year Warranty