Highlights 6 Gb/s throughput at each port PMC-Sierra PM8013 Dual Core RAID on Chip (ROC) SAS 2.0 interfaces and PCIe Gen 2 Host Connection 4- and 8-port low-profile MD2 Supports up to 256 SATA or SAS devices Enclosure management support via LED header and SES2/ SGPIO Intelligent Power Management – Reduces power and cooling costs by as much as 70% Adaptec Flash Module 600 (AFM-600): Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection with 4GB NAND flash (separate Kit): – No data loss from power failures: Replaces lithium ion batteries – Low Operating Costs: No installation, monitoring, maintenance, disposal or replacement costs due to batteries – Maintenance-free cached data protection –Instant RAID cache protection –Environmentally conscious – No toxic battery disposal – Simplified IATA compliance Hybrid RAID 1 & 10: SSD + HDD for Maximum Performance and Reliability Operating System Windows 7 Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Windows Vista VMware ESX Classic 4.x (vsphere) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Sun Solaris 10 x86 FreeBSD Debian Linux Ubuntu Linux Fedora Linux The latest drivers are available at www.adaptec.com/support. Benefits Performance Unified Serial RAID controllers support both SATA and SAS devices. Ideal for bandwidth intensive storage applications; NAS, OLTP servers, web servers, and digital surveillance. Offers Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection and Intelligent Power Management. Key Differentiators Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection. Intelligent Power Management. Customer Needs High I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing. Form Factor MD2 Low-Profile Cache Memory 512MB of DDR2 667MHz cache memory RAID Levels RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50*, 60*, JBOD (* Expander is necessary) Key RAID Features • Supports up to 256 SATA or SAS devices using SAS expanders • RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60 and JBOD • 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 • Optimized Disk Utilization Bus System Interface Type 8-lane PCIe Gen2 Internal Connectors 1 internal (SFF-8087) Mini SAS Data Transfer Rate 6 Gb/s per port