Eight internal SAS/SATA ports

3Gb/s throughput per port

LSISAS1078 RAID on Chip (ROC) : 500MHz power-PC / Hardware RAID 5 and 6 parity engines

Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6" x 2.536")

x8 PCI Express host interface

256MB DDRII Cache (667MHz)

Connect up to 32 SAS and/or SATA devices

RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6

RAID spans 10, 50 and 60

Auto-resume on rebuild

Auto-resume on reconstruction

Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)

Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)

Comprehensive RAID management suite

Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot spare support : Automatic rebuild / Enclosure affinity / Emergency SATA hot spare for SAS arrays

Single controller multipathing (failover)

I/O load balancing

Support for extended RAID 1 volumes of up to 32 devices

Benefits