Product highlights:
PCI-e x8 (x8 and x16 slot compatible)
16 Channel PCI-e x8 to SATA II RAID Controller
Three internal Mini-SAS Connectors
Support up to 12 SATA II and SATA I Hard Drives
RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 and JBOD
Adapter Architecture:
Intel 800MHz 81341 I/O processor
PCI-Express X8 bus
One DIMM socket with default 256MB of DDR2-533 SDRAM with ECC protection, Upgrade to 2GB. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or X16 chip organization
Write-through or write-back cache support
Support up to 12 SATA II drives
Multi-adapter support for large storage requirements
BIOS boot support for greater fault tolerance
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
Intel RAID 6 Engine to support extreme performance RAID 6
NVRAM for RAID event & transaction log
Redundant flash image for adapter availability
Battery Backup Module (BBM) ready
RAID Features:
RAID level 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6 (if RAID 6 engine supported) and JBOD
Multiple RAID selection
Array roaming
Online RAID level/stripe size migration
Online RAID capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
Online Volume set growth
Instant availability and background initialization
Automatic drive insertion/removal detection and rebuild
Greater than 2TB per volume set
Support S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives
Support spin down drives when not in use to extend service life (MAID)
Support NTP protocol to synchronize RAID controller clock over on-board Ethernet port
RAID Management:
Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
In-Band Manager
Hot key boot-up McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
API library for customer to write its monitor utility
Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
Browser-based management utility via ArcHttp Proxy Server
Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
Out-of-Band Manager
Firmware-embedded Browser-based RAID manager, SMTP manager, SNMP agent and Telnet function via on-controller Ethernet port
API library for customer to write its monitor utility
Software Drivers
Windows 2000/XP (Scsiport Driver)
Windows Server 2003 (Scsiport Driver and Storport Driver)
Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, TurboLinux, CentOS, etc.)
FreeBSD
Novell Netware 6.5
Solaris 10 x86/x86_64
SCO UnixWare 7.x.x
Mac OS X (no_bootable)
