LSI MegaRAID 9285-8e SAS 2.0 RAID Controller
Support for 6Gb/s SAS and SATA hard drives. 8 port, 2 external 8088 connectors, PCIe 2.0 x8 interface, Dual 800MHz PowerPC cores, 1GB Cache, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60.
The MegaRAID® SAS 9285-8e, with eight external ports, delivers two 800MHz PowerPC processor cores and a 72-bit DDRIII interface that drives 1GB cache memory. This controller is ideal for configuring external storage enclosures with high-performance SAS hard drives, high-capacity SATA hard drives or application-accelerating solid state drives (SSDs) or for building more sophisticated configurations using LSI 6Gb/s SAS switch products. Users can deploy the MegaRAID SAS 9285-8e in existing HDD-based server environments to help achieve significant performance gains. Alternatively, for users implementing server platforms based on solid state storage, these next-generation MegaRAID controllers can help exploit the potential of SSDs for unsurpassed performance and enterprise-class reliability.
Highlights
- Second generation 6Gb/s SATA+SAS with unprecedented levels of performance
- Ideal for external storage environments using up to 240 SAS, SATA and solid state drives (SSDs)
- Unsurpassed IOPs performance and advanced software options help users realize full benefits of SSD deployments
- Meets high I/O transaction demands of database and datacenter applications
- Provides the sustained data transfer rates and high sequential bandwidth to meet processing requirements of digital media, video and imaging environments
Specifications
- Eight external SATA+SAS ports
- Two mini-SAS SFF-8088 x4 connectors
- 6Gb/s throughput per port
- LSISAS2208 Dual Core ROC
- 800MHz PowerPC® - MD2 Low profile (6.6" X 2.536")
- x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
- 1GB DDRIII cache (1333MHz)
- Optional battery backup unit (LSIiBBU09 remote mount)
- Connect up to 240 SATA and/or SAS devices
- RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6
- RAID spans 10, 50 and 60
- Auto-resume on rebuild
- Auto-resume on reconstruction
- Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
- Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
- SSD support with SSD Guard™
- Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot spare support
- Automatic rebuild
- Enclosure affinity
- Emergency SATA hot spare for SAS arrays - Single controller multipathing (failover)
- I/O load balancing
- Comprehensive RAID management suite

Reference
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