Mini-SAS

Amphenol is an active member of the Serial ATA and Serial Attached SCSI Standard working groups and offers one of the broadest product lines to support the emerging markets for SATA and SAS applications. Mini SAS is covered by SFF-8087 (for SAS1.1).

The need for multiple Hard Disk Drives in a serial bus application, requires an interconnect capable of handling multiple lanes of data. The Mini Multilane interconnect system supports 4 Lanes of Data and 8 Sideband signals (for system management such as I2C or LED’s) in one connector.

Feature and benefits:

ü  High performance cable: Differential pair signaling with less than 10ps/m in pair skew and maximum of 6dB/m of attenuation at 4.5 GHz. Foil in cable construction provides improved EMI.

ü  Signal Integrity: Amphenol Spectra Strip cable technology provides end-to-end signal integrity. Our process controlled termination assures performance at both SATA I (1.5Gbs) and SATA II (3.0Gbs) as well as SAS (3.0Gbs) data rates in the same cable.

ü   Smaller cable package: Thinner and more flexible cables allow for more efficient routing with improved airflow and thermal mechanics. Configuration of storage devices is simplified.

ü  Cost effectiveness and Scalability: World class manufacturing to support the Desktop PC market cost drivers and reliability of the Server market. Future proof technology allows storage manufacturers to continue to increase performance with SATA and SAS.

ü   RoHS: Amphenol Mini SAS assemblies are RoHS compliant.

Applications:

ü  Host Bus Adapters

ü  Workstations

ü  Hard Drive Backplanes

ü  Servers

ü  Backplane interconnect

ü  SATA and SAS

ü  Multimedia

ü  Network and RAID Storage

Product Solutions and Configurations

ü   Straight, R/A and Side Exit configurations

ü   Fanout assemblies to SATA (7 pin), to SAS (29 pin) and to Mulit-lane (32 pin)

ü   26 AWG and 30 AWG wire options

ü   36 Position Internal Assemblies

ü   Host Base and Target Base Fan-out Cables