Product Type

Card RAID Controller

Solution provided drives

Eight-port internal SATA+SAS solution supporting 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s SAS/SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)

Form Factor

PCIe Adapter Card and Mini Monolithic

Connectors

Two internal HD Mini-SAS SFF8643

Device support

32 SAS/SATA Devices (PowerEdge Server Largest Drive Confguration)

Host bus type

8-lane, PCI Express 3.1 compliant

Data transfer rates

Up to 12Gb/s per port

SAS controller

LSISAS 3508 Dual Core ARM A15 Processor – ROC (RAID-On-Chip)

Cache Memory

1MB Shared L2 Cache. 6MB On Chip Memory

Key RAID and data protection features

RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6
RAID spans 10, 50, 60
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
Auto resume after power loss during array rebuild or reconstruction/RLM
Consistency Check for background data integrity
Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™)
4K native sector support
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
Patrol read for media scanning and repair
Up to 64 Virtual Drives
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, and emergency SATA

RAID management

Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator/Storage Services
iDRAC9
PERC CLI
Additional management:
UEFI (HII)
CEM

Operating systems

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2016
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.5
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7.0 or later
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 12
Virtualization options:
VMware® 6.0
VMware® 6.5