The new generation of Adaptec Unified Serial™ controllers meets your need for maximum performance, scalability, and flexibility for enterprise-class applications, including network attached storage (NAS), online transaction processing (OTLP), web, digital surveillance, and streaming applications.
The Adaptec RAID 5805 is equipped with industry-leading dual core RAID on Chip (ROC), the latest x8 PCI-Express connectivity, and 512MB of DDR2 cache to deliver over 250,000 IO per second and 1.2GB/s.
Eight internal ports in this Unified Serial controller allow you to connect up to 256 SATA/SAS disk drives through SAS expanders. The Adaptec RAID 5805 features Adaptec RAID Code (ARC) with RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60, JBOD, as well as Copyback Hot Spare and optional Snapshot Backup.
Adaptec Storage Manager™provides one-view centralized management of all your Adaptec RAID controllers. The Adaptec RAID 5085 also integrates the latest PCIe connectivity, the broadest operating system support, including open source Linux drivers, a battery backup option, and proven compatibility.
5805 Highlights
- 8 internal ports, low-profile MD2 form factor
- 1.2GHz Dual Core RAID on Chip (ROC)
- High-performance RAID 5 and 6
- Up to 512MB DDR2 cache
- Supports up to 256 SATA or SAS drives using SAS expanders
- 3Gbs/ throughput at each drive port
- x8 PCI Express host interface
- Supports multiple RAID LUNs
- Enclosure management support via LED header and SES2/SGPIO
- RoHS compliant
RAID Features
- Supports 8 direct-attached or up to 256 SATA or SAS disk drives
using SAS Expanders
- RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50 and 60
- Quick initialization
- Supports multiple RAID LUNs
- Online Capacity Expansion
- Copyback Hot Spare
- Dynamic caching algorithm
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Background initialization
- Hot-plug drive support
- RAID Level Migration
- Hot spares – global, dedicated, and pooled
- Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spares
- SAF-TE enclosure management
- Configurable stripe size
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Up to 512TB array sizes
- Multiple arrays per disk drive
- Bad stripe table
- Dynamic sector repair
- Staggered drive spin-up
- Bootable array support
- Optimized Disk Utilization
Supported Operating Systems
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0, 5.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0, 10.0
- SCO OpenServer 6.0
- SCO UnixWare 7.1.4
- Sun Solaris 10
- FreeBSD 5.4, 6.1, 6.2
- VMware ESX Server 3.0.1, 3.0.2
