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Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 28
About the Adaptec RAID 5445Z
The Adaptec RAID 5445Z is a SAS RAID controller with these features:
Form Factor Low-profile MD2
Bus compatibility PCIe 1.1
PCIe bus width x8
Data transfer rate 3 Gb/s per port
Phys (Unified Serial Ports) 8
Standard cache 512 MB DDR2
Connectors 1 mini-SAS x4 (SFF-8087) internal
1 mini-SAS x4 (SFF-8088) external
Maximum number of disk drives 8 direct-attached (or up to 256 with expanders)
Enclosure Support I2C and SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output)
Onboard speaker Yes
Zero Maintenance Cache
Protection Module
Adaptec ZMM-100DB daughterboard (pre-installed),
Adaptec ZMM-100CC supercapacitor module (user
installed—see page 48)
Mounting bracket
PCIe x8 connector
Internal mini-SAS
connector CN0
Mode 0 Flash connector
Drive Activity LED connectors for CN0/CN1
Ext. Alarm connector
Diagnostic LEDs
Drive Activity LEDs for CN0/CN1
Aggregate Activity
ZMM-100CC Supercapacitor
connector
1 external
mini-SAS
connector
I2C connectors for CN0/CN1
ZMM-100DB
Daughterboard
CN1