




Brand | Adaptec |
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Model | 2258100-R |
Type | SATA / SAS |
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Internal Connectors | 1 x SFF-8087 Mini SAS |
Interface | PCI-Express x8 |
Transfer Rate | 3 Gb/s per port |
Cache Memory | 256MB of DDR2 memory |
RAID | RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60, JBOD |
Operating Systems Supported | Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux SUSE Linux SCO OpenServer UnixWare Sun Solaris FreeBSD VMware ESX |
Dimensions | 2.5" H x 6.6" L, MD2 Low-Profile |
Features | RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50*, 60*, JBOD (* Expander is necessary) Supports 4 direct-attached or up to 256 SATA or SAS disk drives using SAS expanders 1.2GHz Dual Core RAID on Chip (ROC) Adaptec Storage Manager, Copyback Hot Spare management features RoHS compliant |
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Date First Available | November 10, 2019 |
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Pros: 1 year ownership on this card and it has proven to be the best money I've spent for my system. After three months I decided to beef up my system and go for more than just 4 SSD's, which required me buying a Chenbro expander, which worked wonderfully. Altogether this card is now running 12 SSD's in multiple arrays. On my 240GB OS array I am benchmarking right around 1.2 Gbps reads and 780 Mbps writes!!! Setup is straighforward and the card-based utility is easy and intuitive. Managment software is very good. I sugest the 800T battery backup for write-through. If you do video editing YOU NEED high I/O. MSI 790FX-GD70 AMD 965BE Adaptec 5405 OCZ Vertex SSD x8 OCZ Apex x4 XFX 4890x2 Windows 7 64bit No compatability issues. Adaptec has the best driver support I've ever seen for any product on the market. Seriously, they must have done 6 or more Firmware/Driver updates over the last year. Not that you need to, but it shows the dilligence of the company.
Cons: No joke, this baby runs hot. I custom mounted a 50mm fan above the heatsink and added a case fan above the PCIe lanes...problem solved. If there is a gripe...this is it. Adaptec needs to acknowledge it and provide more than just the passive cooling heatsink.
Overall Review: I am building another system. This time I'll get the 51245, this way I wont need the Chenbro expander and I'll get that space back in the case. Adaptec now makes the 5405Z...NAND flash backup and no battery backup required. Also, there's no need to buy all those SSD's anymore. Adaptec now has a hybrid array system called MaxIQ. It's a couple standard HDD's and only ONE SSD...they say they've increased array speeds by 5X. Bravo Adaptec. (when can we expect a 51245Z?)