IBM MegaRAID 8480 Network Card User Manual


 
1-14 Overview
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1.8 Technical Support
See the
Warranty and Support Information
document for information
about the technical support available for this product.
Table 1.2 MegaRAID 8480 Storage Adapter
Specifications
Specification Megaraid 8480 Storage Adapter
RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50
Devices Supported
per Port
Up to 15 SAS or SATA II devices (such as hard drives
and expanders)
Ports Eight external
Data Transfer Rate Up to 3 Gbits/s per phy
Bus PCI Express 1.0a
Cache Function Write-back, write-through, adaptive read ahead,
non-read ahead, read ahead, cache I/O, direct I/O
Multiple Virtual Disks/
Arrays per Controller
Up to 40 virtual disks per controller or per logical array
Online Capacity
Expansion
Ye s
Dedicated and Global
Hot Spares
Ye s
Hot Swap Devices
Supported
Ye s
Non-Disk Devices
Supported
Ye s
Mixed Capacity
Physical Disks
Supported
Ye s
Number of External
Connectors
MegaRAID 8480 – Two (x4 SAS Port) SFF-8470 SAS
4x connectors
Hardware Exclusive
OR (XOR) Assistance
Ye s
Direct I/O Ye s
Architecture Fusion-MPT