Product Planning –December 2010 Slide 1 PMC Proprietary and Confidential

Adaptec Series 6 Low PortProduct Overview

Projected Performance Metrics - Streaming

RAID Level Reads (MB/sec) Writes (MB/sec)

0 2000 2000

10 2000 1000

5/6 2000 1000

• Hardware- Utilizes PM8013 6G RoC- Support for SAS 2.0, 6Gb/s- x8 PCI-express Gen 2.0- 512MB DDR2-667 DRAM

• Adaptec Flash Module(AFM)- Tethered Supercap: AFM-600 Kit

• Features- Simple Volume, JBOD, RAID 0,1, 10, 1E

RAID 5, 6, 50, 60- Hybrid RAID 1, 10- All supported features from Series-5- 50k IOPs (4 KB block size, random read, 2011.1 FW) - Adaptec maxCacheTM available 2011.3 timeframe

Model Connector Type Form Factor

6805 2x SFF-8087 Low Profile

6405 1x SFF-8087 Low Profile

6445 1x SFF-80871x SFF-8088 Low Profile

AFM-600 n/a n/a

Product Planning –December 2010 Slide 2 PMC Proprietary and Confidential

RAID Feature ComparisonCategory Features PMC LSI

Standard RAID

RAID Levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60, JBOD Hybrid RAID 1, 10 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60

Device Support 240 devices 240 devices

OS Supported Windows, Linux, VMWare ESX and ESXi, Solaris, FreeBSD

Windows, Linux, VMWare ESX and ESXi, Solaris, FreeBSD

Advanced RAID

OCE Yes Yes

RLM Yes Yes

BBU Yes Yes

Spares Global, Dedicated, or Pooled Global or Dedicated

Value Add Functionality

Power Mgmt Yes, IPM Yes

Super Cap Yes, ZMCP Working on flash based solution

SSD Optimization SSD Read CachingSSD Write Caching Q3’11 FastPath and CacheCade

Encryption, Snapshots No Yes

PerformanceRandom 50K IOPs 58K IOPs

Sequential Up to 2 GB/s Up to 1.6 GB/s