Intel RSP3TD160, RSP3MD088, RSP3DD080, RSP3WD080 Hardware User's Manual

Intel® RAID Adapters
RSP3TD160, RSP3MD088, RSP3DD080
and RSP3WD080

Hardware User Guide

A document providing an overview of product features, specification data, and
hardware installation instructions

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July 2017

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重要安全指导

Safety Information

Important Safety Instructions

Read all caution and safety statements in this document before performing any of the instructions. See also
Intel Server Boards and Server Chassis Safety Information at

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/motherboards/server/sb/g23122­004_safetyregulatory.pdf

Wichtige Sicherheitshinweise

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Anweisungen ausführen. Beachten Sie hierzu auch die Sicherheitshinweise zu Intel-Serverplatinen und
Servergehäusen auf der

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Instrucciones de seguridad importantes

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instrucciones. Vea Intel Server Boards and Server Chassis Safety Information en

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在执行任何指令之前，请阅读本文档中的所有注意事项及安全声明。和/或

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上的 Intel® Server Boards and Server Chassis Safety Information（《Intel 服务器主板与服务器机箱安全信
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Warnings

Heed safety instructions: Before working with your server product, whether you are using this guide or any
other resource as a reference, pay close attention to the safety instructions. You must adhere to the
assembly instructions in this guide to ensure and maintain compliance with existing product certifications
and approvals. Use only the described, regulated components specified in this guide. Use of other
products/components will void the UL listing and other regulatory approvals of the product and will most
likely result in noncompliance with product regulations in the region(s) in which the product is sold.
System power on/off: The power button DOES NOT turn off the system AC power. To remove all power
from the system, you must unplug the AC power cord from the wall outlet. Make sure the AC power cord is
unplugged before you open the chassis, add, or remove any components.
Hazardous conditions, devices and cables: Hazardous electrical conditions may be present on power,
telephone, and communication cables. Turn off the server and disconnect the power cord,
telecommunications systems, networks, and modems attached to the server before opening it. Otherwise,
personal injury or equipment damage can result.
Installing or removing jumpers: A jumper is a small plastic-encased conductor that slips over two jumper
pins. Some jumpers have a small tab on top that you can grip with your fingertips or with a pair of fine needle
nosed pliers. If your jumpers do not have such a tab, take care when using needle-nosed pliers to remove or
install a jumper; grip the narrow sides of the jumper with the pliers, never the wide sides. Gripping the wide
sides can damage the contacts inside the jumper, causing intermittent problems with the function controlled
by that jumper. Take care to grip with, but not squeeze, the pliers or other tool you use to remove a jumper,
or you may bend or break the pins on the board.
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) and ESD protection: ESD can damage disk drives, boards, and other parts. We
recommend that you perform all procedures in this chapter only at an ESD workstation. If one is not
available, provide some ESD protection by wearing an anti-static wrist strap attached to chassis ground, any
unpainted metal surface on your server when handling parts.
ESD and handling boards: Always handle boards carefully. They can be extremely sensitive to ESD. Hold
boards only by their edges. After removing a board from its protective wrapper or from the server, place the
board component side up on a grounded, static-free surface. Use a conductive foam pad if available but not
the board wrapper. Do not slide board over any surface.

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Document Title

Description

Intel® RAID Software User Guide for full

A document that provides information on RAID Card Setup and usage of supported

What to Do when Unable to Enter BIOS

Article ID: 000059999. If the Intel or OEM logo screen displays during POST, the BIOS

12 Gbps SAS or 6G SATA Data Transfer

Article ID# 000008025. A document that provides information on how and where the

1. Preface

1.1 About This Document

This document provides an overview of product features, specification data, and hardware installation
instructions for the Intel® Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) Adapters RSP3TD160, RSP3MD088,
RSP3DD080 and RSP3WD080

1.2 Document Organization

This document includes the following:

Chapter 1 – Product Overview – Provides a product overview of the features set and support specifications.

Chapter 2 – General Feature Overview – Provides a brief description for the features that are common for the
products covered by this guide.

Chapter 3 – Detailed Characteristics – Provides details on the characteristics for each of the products covered
by this guide.

Chapter 4 – Connectivity and Drive Support – Provides description of what drives are supported by the
products covered by this guide and the way to connect them.

Chapter 5 – Hardware Installation - Provides support for the installation of the product on the Intel systems

where they are supported.

Chapter 6 – Safety and Regulatory

Chapter 7 – Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit AXXRMFBU7 – Provides details of the Intel® RAID

Maintenance-Free Backup Unit AXXRMFBU7 accessory option.

Appendix A. Glossary of Terms

Reference Documents and Online Articles

The following documents are available for download and will be useful to setting up and using the Intel RAID
adapter.

featured and entry level RAID
controllers

or Intel® RAID BIOS Console During
Boot for Intel® Server Boards

Controller Support for Intel® RAID
Controllers

RAID utility software.

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/server­products/raid-products/000024126.html

entry or Intel® RAID BIOS console command prompts are not visible. To gain access to
these prompts, disable the logo screen.

controller supports 12-Gbps SAS (6G SATA) data transfers.

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1.3 Product Support Collaterals

In addition to this user guide, Intel provides documentation, device driver updates, and utilities that may be
necessary and/or useful for operation and support of this product. Additional product support collaterals can
be downloaded from the following Intel websites:

For product documentation, go to the following Intel website:

http://www.intel.com/support/

For product device drives and other software utilities, go to the following Intel website:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com

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Table of Contents

1. Preface .................................................................................................................................................. i

1.1 About This Document ........................................................................................................................ i

1.2 Document Organization .................................................................................................................... i

1.3 Product Support Collaterals ........................................................................................................... ii

1. Product Overview .............................................................................................................................. 7

2. Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapters General Features ....................................................................... 8

2.1 Overview ................................................................................................................................................. 8

2.2 Benefits of the SAS Interface ......................................................................................................... 8

2.3 Benefits of the NVM Express (NVMe) interface....................................................................... 8

2.4 Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Adapter Features ..................................................................................... 8

2.4.1 SAS Features ......................................................................................................................................... 8

2.4.2 SATA III Features .................................................................................................................................. 9

2.4.3 NVMe Interface Features .................................................................................................................. 9

2.4.4 Usability Features ................................................................................................................................ 9

2.4.5 Flexibility Features .............................................................................................................................. 9

2.4.6 Drive Roaming ...................................................................................................................................... 9

2.4.7 Drive Migration .................................................................................................................................. 10

2.4.8 Safety Characteristics ..................................................................................................................... 10

2.5 Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapters Feature Set........................................................................... 11

2.6 Data Protection Features .............................................................................................................. 12

2.7 Fault Tolerance Features ............................................................................................................... 13

2.8 Array Performance Features ........................................................................................................ 13

2.9 Drive Support Limits ....................................................................................................................... 14

2.10 Over temperature protection ...................................................................................................... 14

2.11 UART Interface ................................................................................................................................. 14

2.12 Optional Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit (RMFBU) ..................................... 15

3. Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Adapters Detailed Characteristics ....................................................... 16

3.1 Intel RAID Module RMSP3TD160F Description.................................................................. 16

3.2 Intel RAID Module RMSP3TD160F Dimensions ................................................................. 17

3.2.1 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3TD160F Electrical, Thermal and Atmospheric Requirements. 18

3.2.2 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3TD160F Power Consumption. .............................................. 18

3.3 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3DD080F ......................................................................................... 19

3.4 Intel RAID Module RMSP3DD080F Dimensions................................................................. 20

3.4.1 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3DD080F Electrical, Thermal and Atmospheric Requirements. 21

3.4.2 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3DD080F Power Consumption. .............................................. 21

3.5 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3MD088F ......................................................................................... 21

3.6 Intel RAID Module RMSP3MD088F Dimensions ................................................................ 22

3.6.1 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3MD088F Electrical, Thermal and Atmospheric Requirements. 23

3.6.2 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3MD088F Consumption. ........................................................... 24

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3.7 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3WD080E ......................................................................................... 24

3.8 Intel RAID Module RMSP3WD080E Dimensions ............................................................... 25

3.8.1 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3WD080E Electrical, Thermal and Atmospheric Requirements. 27

3.8.2 Intel RAID Adapter RMSP3WD080E Consumption. ........................................................... 27

4. Conectivity and Drive Support .................................................................................................... 28

4.1 Connectivity and Drive Support ................................................................................................. 28

4.2 Connector Pinout ............................................................................................................................. 28

4.3 SAS/SATA Drive Support .............................................................................................................. 29

4.4 Intel® 12 Gb/s SAS 3.0 Expander Support ............................................................................. 30

4.4.1 SAS Expander Configuration for the Intel® RMSP3TD160F RAID Module ............... 30

4.5 NVMe Drive Support ....................................................................................................................... 32

5. Hardware Installation .................................................................................................................... 34

5.1 RAID Adapter Installation ............................................................................................................. 35

5.1.1 Requirements ..................................................................................................................................... 35

5.1.2 Packing List ......................................................................................................................................... 35

5.2 RAID Adapter Installation ............................................................................................................. 35

5.2.1 Requirements ..................................................................................................................................... 35

5.2.2 Packing List ......................................................................................................................................... 35

5.2.3 Installation Instructions ................................................................................................................. 35

6. Safety and Regulatory (Class A) .................................................................................................. 38

6.1 Product Safety Compliance ......................................................................................................... 38

6.2 Product EMC Compliance – Class A Compliance ................................................................ 38

6.3 Product Environmental Compliance ........................................................................................ 38

7. Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit AXXRMFBU7 ..................................................... 40

7.1 Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit AXXRMFBU7 ............................................... 40

7.2 FBU345 Specifications and Layout ........................................................................................... 41

7.2.1 Extender Cable .................................................................................................................................. 43

7.3 Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit Installation ................................................... 43

7.4 Monitoring the Intel® RAID Maintenance Free Backup Unit ........................................... 45

7.4.1 Monitoring the RMFBU with the Human Interface Infrastructure. ............................... 45

Appendix A. Glossary ....................................................................................................................... 48

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List of Figures

Figure 1 -

Figure 2 -

Figure 3 -

Figure 4 -

Figure 5 -

Figure 6 -

Figure 7 -

Figure 8 -

Figure 9. Intel®

Figure 10. Supported Intel® SAS expander options ..................................................................................... 30

Figure 11. RAID module RMS3PTD160 SAS port domain identification ............................................. 31

Figure 12. SAS ports for the RES3FV288 .......................................................................................................... 31

Figure 13. SAS ports for the RES3TV360 .......................................................................................................... 31

Figure 14. Connecting the AXXCBL700HDCV to the backplane ............................................................. 33

Figure 15. Connecting the AXXCBL700HDCV cable to the RAID adapter ........................................... 33

Figure 16 RAID Adapter Installation (insert adapter in slot) ..................................................................... 36

Figure 17 RAID Adapter Installation (insert riser card) ................................................................................ 37

Intel SAS RMSP3TD160F RAID adapter Layout

Intel RMSP3TD160F RAID adapter Dimensions

Intel SAS RMSP3DD080F RAID adapter Layout

Intel RMSP3DD080F RAID adapter Dimensions

Intel SAS RMSP3MD088F RAID adapter Layout

Intel RMSP3MD088F RAID adapter Dimensions

Intel SAS RMSP3WD080E RAID adapter Layout

Intel RMSP3WD080E RAID adapter Dimensions

RMSP3TD160F RAID Adapter SFF-8643 connector

.............................................................. 16

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............................................................. 19

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Figure 18 RAID Adapter Installation (adapter installed) ............................................................................. 37

Figure 19. FBU345 layout ........................................................................................................................................ 42

Figure 20. Extender cable pinout ......................................................................................................................... 43

Figure 21 - AXXRMFBU7 Mounting Assembly ................................................................................................ 43

Figure 22 - RMFBU Assembly Installation ........................................................................................................ 44

Figure 23 - Connecting the RMFBU7 to the RAID adapter ......................................................................... 44

Figure 24. HII Dashboard view screen ................................................................................................................ 45

Figure 25. HII Hardware Components screen ................................................................................................. 46

Figure 26. HII Battery Management screen ...................................................................................................... 46

List of Tables

Table 1. Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapter comparative feature set ............................................................. 11

Table 2- Data Protection Features ....................................................................................................................... 12

Table 3. Fault-tolerant features ............................................................................................................................ 13

Table 4. Array performance features .................................................................................................................. 13

Table 5. SAS/SATA drive support limits ............................................................................................................ 14

Table 6- UART Connector Pinout ......................................................................................................................... 14

Table 7. SFF-8643 connector pinout .................................................................................................................. 29

Table 8. FBU345 specifications ............................................................................................................................. 41

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1. Product Overview

The Intel® RAID adapters RSP3TD160, RSP3MD088, RSP3DD080 and RSP3WD080 are are part of the new
family of Intel® RAID adapters. This new family of Tri-Mode RAID adapters allow for creating RAID
configurations with SAS drives, SATA drives, or NVMe drives.
The Intel® RAID adapters RSP3TD160, RSP3MD088, RSP3DD080 and RSP3WD080 are high-performance,
intelligent adapters with RAID control capability. The Tri-Mode RAID Adapters provide reliability, high­performance, and fault-tolerant drive subsystem management.
The Tri-Mode RAID adapters are based on the LSI SAS IC technology and proven MegaRAID technology.
Intel offers a family of Tri-Mode RAID adapters that address the needs for internal connectivity solutions as well
as low and high port count:

• RSP3TD160F – Full featured tri-mode RAID adapter with 16 internal ports

• RSP3MD088F– Full featured tri-mode RAID adapter with 8 internal and 8 external ports

• RSP3DD080F– Full featured tri-mode RAID adapter with 8 internal ports

• RSP3WD080E– Entry level tri-mode RAID adapter with 8 internal ports

NOTE: The Intel Tri-Mode adapters are designed to work on systems configured for optimized UEFI boot
mode. There is no built-in configuration utility for these adapters when the system is configured for legacy
boot mode. Some adapters like RSP3WD080E will not work when the system they are installed on is
configured for legacy boot mode.

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2. Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapters General Features

2.1 Overview

The Intel® Tri-Mode adapters include a SAS interface and an NVMe interface. Both share the same
connectors by multiplexing the data and sideband signals. As compared with the previous generation of Intel
RAID adapters, the new Tri-Mode family offers increased performance by reducing latency, increasing IOPS,
increasing queue depth and increasing cache memory. They also offer NVMe drive support to allow doing
hardware RAID using these new technology drives.

2.2 Benefits of the SAS Interface

SAS is a serial, point-to-point, enterprise-level device interface that leverages the proven SCSI protocol set.
SAS is a convergence of the advantages of SATA, SCSI, and Fiber Channel and the mainstay of the enterprise
and high-end workstation storage markets.

The SAS interface uses the SCSI command set to ensure reliable data transfers while providing the connectivity
and flexibility of point-to-point serial data transfers. The serial transmission of SCSI commands eliminates
clock-skew challenges. The SAS interface provides improved performance, simplified cabling, smaller
connectors, and lower pin count and power requirements when compared to the original parallel SCSI.

SAS adapters leverage a common electrical and physical connection interface that is compatible with Serial
ATA (SATA) technology. The SAS protocols and the SATA III protocols use a common thin, 7-wire connector.
The SAS/SATA III connector and cable are easier to manipulate, allow connections to smaller devices, and do
not inhibit airflow. The point-to-point SATA III architecture eliminates inherent difficulties created by the legacy
ATA master-slave architecture while maintaining compatibility with existing ATA firmware.

2.3 Benefits of the NVM Express (NVMe) interface

NVMe (non-volatile memory express) is a storage protocol created to accelerate the transfer of data with
solid-state drives (SSDs) by utilizing multiple PCIe connections. Benefits are increased bandwidth (up to
8Gb/s per lane), lower latency, increased efficiency, lower CPU utilization with multiple long command
queues and lower power.

2.4 Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Adapter Features

Next is an explanation of the features of the Intel® Tri-Mode RAID Adapters.

2.4.1 SAS Features

Characteristics of the SAS interface.

• Supports the following:

o 12 Gb/s, 6Gb/s, and 3Gb/s SAS data transfers per PHY.
o SMP communicating topology management information.
o SSP enabling communication with other SAS devices.
o STP enabling communication with SATA devices through an attached expander.

• Provides a serial, point-to-point, enterprise-level storage interface.

• Simplifies cabling between devices.

• Provides a scalable interface that supports up to 240 devices through the use of expanders.

• Supports x2 through x8 wide ports that consist of two (2), four (4), or eight(8) PHYs within a

single port.

• Supports narrow ports consisting of a single PHY.

• Transfers data by using SCSI information units.

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2.4.2 SATA III Features

The SAS interface is compatible with SATA and it has the following characteristics.

• Supports the following:

o SATA III data transfers up to 6Gb/s.
o STP data transfers up to 6Gb/s.

• Provides a serial, point-to-point storage interface.

• Simplifies cabling between devices.

• Eliminates the master-slave construction used in parallel ATA.

• Permits addressing of multiple SATA targets through an expander.

2.4.3 NVMe Interface Features

The new NVMe interface has the following characteristics.

• Supports the following:

o Data transfers of 8Gb/s per lane (32 Gb/s when 4 PCIe lanes are being used).
o PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, Revision 1.2.
o Active State Power Management, states, by placing links in a power-saving mode

during times of no link activity.

• Supports PCIe Hot Plug.

• Supports error handling.

• Provides high bandwidth per pin with low overhead and low latency.

• Supports lane reversal and polarity inversion.

2.4.4 Usability Features

The Tri-Mode RAID adapters have the next usability characteristics.

• Drives spin-up sequencing control.

• Provides one (1) LED signal to indicate link activity for all PHYs for the the drive activity LED on

the chassis.

• Supports the internal SAS sideband signal SFF-8485 (SGPIO) interface.

Note: LED signals indicate an error condition or drive activity. RAID adapters support several blink patterns for
these LEDs, depending on the user configuration and storage enclosure. For information about the LED blink
patterns, contact the storage enclosure manufacturer.

2.4.5 Flexibility Features

The Tri-Mode RAID adapters have the next flexibility characteristics.

• Flash ROM interface, a non-volatile static RAM (NVSRAM) interface.

• Flexible programming interface to tune I/O performance.

• Permit mixed connections to SAS targets or SATA III targets.

• Leverage-compatible connectors for SAS connections and SATA III connections.

• Permit grouping of up to eight (8) PHYs into a single SAS-wide port.

• Permit programming of the World Wide Name.

2.4.6 Drive Roaming

Drive roaming occurs when once a VD is already set up, some or all of the drives that are part of this VD are
manually changed to different ports on the same adapter. When this happens, the adapter detects the RAID
configuration from the configuration data on the drives.
Configuration data is saved in both the NVRAM on the RAID adapter and on the drives attached to the adapter.
This feature maintains the integrity of the data on each drive, even if the drives have changed their physical
device ID. More information on how to use the drive roaming feature can be found on the Intel® RAID Software
User Guide for full featured and entry level RAID adapters.

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2.4.7 Drive Migration

The Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapters allow to move one VD from one adapter to another, this is called Drive
Migration. In other words, Drive Migration is the transfer of a set of drives in an existing configuration from one
adapter to another. In order to achieve this, there are some conditions: 1) The drives must remain on the same
channel. 2) The drives must be reinstalled in the same order as in the original configuration. 3) The adapter to
which the drives are migrated cannot have an existing configuration.

Note: When drives are migrated, move only the drives that make up the virtual drive (not all of the drives in a
drive group), so that an NVRAM mismatch error does not occur (provided a configuration is on the destination
adapter). The NVRAM mismatch error appears only when all of the drives are moved to the other adapter.
Note: Drive roaming and drive migration cannot be supported at the same time.

More information on how to use the drive migration feature can be found on the Intel® RAID Software User
Guide for full featured and entry level RAID adapters.

2.4.8 Safety Characteristics

All the Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapters meet or exceed the requirements of UL flammability rating 94 V0. Each
bare board is also marked with the supplier name or trademark, type, and UL flammability rating.

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Feature

RSP3TD160F

RSP3MD088F

RSP3DD080F

RSP3WD080E

Broadcom* SAS3516

Broadcom* SAS3516

Broadcom* SAS3508

Broadcom* SAS3408

RAID Levels

0,1,5,6,10, 50, 60

0,1,5,6,10, 50, 60

0,1,5,6,10, 50, 60

0,1,5,10

JBOD Mode or Pass­4 GB DDR4 at 2133

4 GB DDR4 at 2133

4 GB DDR4 at 2133

N/A

Form Factor

MD2 (PCIe card)

MD2 (PCIe card)

MD2 (PCIe card)

MD2 (PCIe card)

Drive Interface

x8 PCI Express* 3.0.

x8 PCI Express* 3.0.

x8 PCI Express* 3.0.

x8 PCI Express* 3.0.

12, 6, & 3 Gbps per

12, 6, & 3 Gbps per

12, 6, & 3 Gbps per

12, 6, & 3 Gbps per

Operating

Maximum ambient:

Maximum ambient:

Maximum ambient:

Maximum ambient:

Microsoft Window*,

Microsoft Window*,

Microsoft Window*,

Microsoft Window*,

Drive Types

SAS, SATA, NVMe

SAS, SATA, NVMe

SAS, SATA, NVMe

SAS, SATA, NVMe

Maximum NVMe

Maximum SAS/SATA

utilities

spares

KB

management

2.5 Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapters Feature Set.

The following table describes the feature set of the Intel Tri-Mode adapters

Table 1. Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapter comparative feature set

I/O Processor

thru mode
(SAS/SATA)

Cache Memory

Connectors

PCIe* Interface

Data Transfer Rates

Temperature

Operating System

PCIe* RAID On-Chip
(ROC)

Yes Yes Yes

MHz

4 internal 2 internal, 2 external 2 internal 2 internal

PCIe Performance up
to 8 GT/s per lane

port SAS, 6 & 3 Gbps
per port SATA and 8
Gbps per lane NVMe

55°C

Linux* (SuSE*, Red
Hat*) Solaris*
FreeBSD*

PCIe* RAID On-Chip
(ROC)

MHz

PCIe Performance up
to 8 GT/s per lane

port SAS, 6 & 3 Gbps
per port SATA and 8
Gbps per lane NVMe

55°C

Linux* (SuSE*, Red
Hat*) Solaris*
FreeBSD*

PCIe* RAID On-Chip
(ROC)

MHz

PCIe Performance up
to 8 GT/s per lane

port SAS, 6 & 3 Gbps
per port SATA and 8
Gbps per lane NVMe

55°C

Linux* (SuSE*, Red
Hat*) Solaris*
FreeBSD*

PCIe* RAID On-Chip
(ROC)

PCIe Performance up
to 8 GT/s per lane

port SAS, 6 & 3 Gbps
per port SATA and 8
Gbps per lane NVMe

55°C

Linux* (SuSE*, Red
Hat*) Solaris*
FreeBSD*

Yes

drives supported

devices supported***

Maximum Virtual
Drives

Advanced array
configuration and
management

Support for global
hot spares and
dedicated hot

Support for user­defined strip sizes:
8, 16, 32, 64, 128,
256, 512, or 1024

Advanced array
configuration and

11

4 2 2 2

64 64 64 63

64 (SAS/SATA/NVMe) 64 (SAS/SATA/NVMe) 64 (SAS/SATA/NVMe) 32 (SAS/SATA/NVMe)

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Only global hot spares

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No