
71605 SAS/SATA 6Gbps PCIe Gen3 RAID Adapter
It’s well known that the effectiveness of data access is crucial to data center and server environments. With robust 6Gbps performance and proven Adaptec reliability, the Adaptec 71605 SAS/SATA 6Gbps PCIe Gen3 RAID adapter is great for entry-level server to high-end server platforms and high-performance workstations.
The Series 7 adapter family features a PMC’s 24-port PM8015 RAID-on-Chip ROC which combines an x8 PCIe Gen3 interface with 6Gbps SAS ports to enable a new generation of high performance, high native port count RAID adapters that are unmatched by any other ROC in the industry. It perfectly balances protection and performance for critical applications, with RAID level of 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60.
The adapter has four internal mini SAS HD (SFF-8643) connectors. It’s able to connect up to 256 SAS or SATA devices using SAS expanders. The intuitive management utilities let you efficiently manage your adapter.
The low-profile MD2 form factor, along with the included low-profile vented bracket, allows for easy installation into any size of server systems.
- Optimized Disk Utilization
- Supported RAID levels: 0, 1, 1E, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
- HBA Mode and Simple Volume Mode for automatic deployment
- Support for up to 256 SAS or SATA devices using SAS expanders
- Hybrid RAID 1 & 10
- Quick initialization
- Online capacity expansion
- Copyback hot spare
- Dynamic caching algorithm
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Background initialization
- Hot-plug drive support
- RAID level migration
- Hot spares - global, dedicated, and pooled
- Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spares
- SES and SAF-TE enclosure management
- Configurable stripe size
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Multiple arrays per disk drive
- Dynamic sector repair
- Staggered drive spin-up
- Bootable array support
- Support for Tape Devices, Autoloaders
- Adaptec maxView Storage Manager
- Web based GUI Management Utility
- OS Support: Windows, Linux, Solaris VMware
- Remote configuration, monitoring & notification
- Remote firmware updates
- SMI-S Support
- SMTP
- Command Line Interface
- SMI-S support for VMware
- BIOS level configuration utility
- Flashable BIOS support
- HII based configuration utility
- Flashable BIOS support
- Microsoft Windows
- Red Hat Linux
- SUSE Linux
- Fedora
- Debian Linux
- Ubuntu Linux
- Sun Solaris
- FreeBSD
- VMware ESX
Pros: Fast and Solid Does what it advertises. I took a star off ONLY because the software and tech support was so bad.
Cons: Extremely poor Windows management software. Also, both command line AND windows msm software cannot connect to the card if a Supermicro AOC series (adaptec) controller card is used in the system with this card.
Overall Review: While the card and it's RAID functions operated (setup in BIOS initially) perfectly, I could not use either the CLI or MSM to control the card. After weeks worth of back and forth to Tech support, I had to figure out on my own that the problem was incompatibility with another RAID card I had in the system. It was never clear to the tech support why this should be.