IBM MegaRAID 8480 Network Card User Manual


 
Summary of MegaRAID 8480 RAID Controller Characteristics 1-9
Copyright © 2006-2007 by LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.
Two external connectors
Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50
Advanced array configuration and management utilities
Online RAID level migration
Drive migration
Drive roaming
Patrol Read
No reboot necessary after expansion
More than 200 Qtags per array
User-specified rebuild rate
32 Kbyte nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) for storing
RAID system configuration information; the MegaRAID SAS firmware
is stored in flash ROM for easy upgrade.
1.6.1 SAS Features
The following list describes the SAS features:
Provides eight fully independent PHYs
Supports 3.0 Gbit/s SAS data transfers per PHY
Supports SSP to enable communication with other SAS devices
Supports SMP to communicate topology management information
Provides a serial, point-to-point, enterprise-level storage interface
Simplifies cabling between devices
Provides a scalable interface that supports up to 128 devices through
multiple expanders
Supports wide ports consisting of 2, 3, or 4 PHYs within a single
quad port
Supports narrow ports consisting of a single PHY
Transfers data using SCSI information units
1.6.2 SATA II Features
The following list describes the SATA II features: