Technical specifications
Solution Provided Eight-port external SAS solution for performance-hungry applications using up to 240 SAS, SATA and solid state drives (SSDs)
Physical Dimensions MD2 Low profile ( 6.6 X 2.536 )
External Connectors Two Mini-SAS SFF8088 external connectors
Device Support Up to 240 SAS and/or SATA hard drives and SSDs
Host Bus Type x8 lane PCI Express 3.0 compliant
Data Transfer Rates Up to 6Gb/s per port
I/O Processor/SAS Controller LSI SAS 2208 Dual-Core RAID on Chip (ROC)
Cache Memory 1 GB 1333MHz DDRIII SDRAM
Cache Protection MegaRAID LSIiBBU09 (optional LSIiBBU09 / LSI00279) - not included in the listing
Key RAID Data Protection Features
RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 6
RAID spans 10, 50 and 60
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
Auto resume after loss of system power during array rebuild or reconstruction (RLM)
Single controller Multipathing (failover)
Load Balancing
Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
Fast initialization for quick array setup
Check Consistency for background data integrity
SSD Support with SSD Guard TM technology
Patrol read for media scanning and repairing
64 logical drive support
DDF compliant Configuration on Disk (COD)
S. M. A. R. T support
Global and dedicated Hot Spare with Revertible Hot Spare support
Automatic rebuild
Enclosure affinity
Emergency SATA hot spare for SAS arrays
Enclosure management
SES (inband)
SGPIO (sideband)
Operating Temperature Maximum ambient: Controller
Card: 60°C, with optional LSIiBBU 09: 55 °C
Operating Voltage + 3.3V, +12V
MTBF (Calculated) 808, 712 hours
Regulatory Certifications EN55022, EN55024, EN60950, EN 61000-3-2, EN 61000-3-3; FCC Class A, Class B; UL1950; UL; CSA C 22.2; VCCI; RRL for MIC;
BSMI; C-tick
RAID Management MegaRAID Management Suite
MegaRAID Storage ManagerTM
MegaCLI (command-line interface)
WebBIOS
Optional SSD Optimization
MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Software leverages SSDs in front of HDD volumes to create high-capacity, high-performance controller cache pools
MegaRAID Fast Path Software provides high-performance I/O acceleration for SSD arrays connected to 6Gb/s MegaRAID SATA+SAS controllers
OS Support Extensive support includes Microsoft ® Windows® Vista/2008/Server 2003, Linux®, SolarisTM (x86), FreeBSD®, VMware® and more.