Product Type

Card RAID Controller

Connectors

Two internal HD Mini-SAS SFF8643

Device support

Up to 255 (SAS, SATA)

Host bus type

8-lane, PCI Express 3.0 compliant

Data transfer rates

Up to 12Gb/s per port

SAS controller

LSI SAS 3108 1200MT/s PowerPC 476 dual-core 12Gbps ROC

Cache memory

2GB 1866MT/s DDR3 SDRAM

Key RAID and data protection features

RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6
RAID spans 10, 50, 60
Non-RAID (pass-through)
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
Auto resume after power loss during array
rebuild or reconstruction/RLM
Check Consistency for background data integrity
Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™)
4K native sector support
Workload profles
Support for TRIM/UNMAP Commands for SAS/SATA SSDs
NVRAM “Wipe” feature protects proprietary data once card is decommissioned
SED drive support
Load balancing
Fast initialization for quick array setup
Confgurable stripe size up to 1MB
SSD support
Patrol read for media scanning and repairing
DDF compliant Confguration on Disk (COD)
S.M.A.R.T. support
Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot-spare support: automatic rebuild, enclosure afnity, emergency SATA

RAID management

CTRL-R
Dell OpenManage Storage Services
Additional management:
UEFI (HII)
CEM

Operating systems

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R1 & R2
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
Virtualization options:
VMware® ESXi 5.1
VMware 6.0