Product Type

Card RAID Controller

Solution provided drives

Eight-port (2- x4) external SAS solution for performance-hungry external storage environments

Form Factor

PCIe Adapter Card

Connectors

Two mini-SAS HD external SFF8644

Device support

N/A

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 on rebuild or reconstruction
Single controller multi-pathing
Load balancing
Fast initialization for quick array setup
Consistency Check for background data integrity
Confgurable Stripe size up to 1MB SED drive support
Physical disk power management
(Dimmer Switch™)
4K native sector support
Up to 64 Virtual Disks
Patrol Read for media scanning and repair
Support UNMAP command
S.M.A.R.T. support
Global and dedicated hot-spare with Revertible Hot-Spare
support
• Automatic rebuild of hot-spare drives
• Enclosure affnity
NVRAM “Wipe” feature- protests proprietary data once card is decommissioned 6Gb/s & 12Gb/s SAS SSD support

RAID management

Dell EMC 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® 6.5