HBA 1100 Host Bus AdaptersThe HBA 1100 is part of the Smart Storage Solutions family, forged through the convergence of Microchip's SAS/SATA protocol controller expertise, more than 30 years of board innovation, and acquired smart IP technology.Optimized for New Devices and New Use CasesThe HBA 1100 supports SMR HDDs and their specifi c command sets (ZAC/ZBC for SAS/SATA SMR drives), enabling cost efficient solutions for warm and cold storage applications.It also supports the latest SAS and SATA SSDs. The HBA 1100 is also optimized for software-defi ned storage solutions, such as Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, VMWare vSAN and OpenStack Swift/Ceph.Maximum PerformanceThe HBA 1100 series provides the highest levels of storage performance and scalability for next-generation data centers.Using the new SmartPQI host OS device drivers that are optimized for low latency solid-state drives, HBA 1100 adapters can aggregate the performance of devices to the limits of the PCIe Gen3 host bus at 6.6 Gbps, and achieve up to 1.7M