The Emulex Storage I/O Controllers are the industry's only embedded storage processor/controller products that support for all three serial storage protocols, including Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA. Designed for storage system providers that want to build flexibility into their external storage systems, the family of Emulex storage processors/controllers provides a fully integrated, high performance solution to support a broad range of entry-level to enterprise-class storage systems, including new high-performance 8Gb/s FC storage arrays.

Storage I/O Controller Selection Guide

ProductSpeedFC PortsSAS PortsSATA Ports
IOC 5408, 4 or 2Gb/s2--
IOC 5044, 2 or 1Gb/s4--
IOP 502M4, 3, 2, 1.5 or 1Gb/s244
IOC 500S3 or 1.5 Gb/s-88