Adaptec is bringing out the new "Series 2" line of RAID controllers. These controllers can handle RAID 0, 1 and 10 in hardware for both SAS and SATA disk arrays, and can also handle tape drives on SAS expanders.

The cards have an 800MHz dual core Raid-On-a-Chip (ROC) controller that are scaled down versions of the controllers on the Series 5 family. The controller will have 128MB of DDR2 for a disk cache and will support up to 128 SATA/SAS io devices with up to 3GB/s at each drive port. The controller supports Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 Vista, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Server, SCO OpenServer, UnixWare, Sun Solaris 10 x86, FreeBSD and VMware ESX Server.

The RAID 2405 is available with, one with four internal ports, and one SFF-8087 internal connector for $225, a version that  adds a fanout cable for $250, and a version with an SFF-8088 external connector for $250.