Controller Configuration

• Four internal SAS/SATA ports at 3Gb/s

— One SAS SFF-8087 connector

• 667MHz Intel 81348 XScale I/O processor

• Onboard 128MB ECC DDR II memory

Hardware Features

• PCI-Express x8 host bus interface

• Hardware XOR engine to offload parity calculation

• Hardware RAID 6 accelerator

• Low-profile MD2 form factor

• Optional on-board battery backup unit for data retention up to 72 hours

Supported RAID Levels

• RAID 0 – Data striped across 1-16 drives for increased performance, but no data protection

• RAID 1 – Mirrored pair of drives for data protection with increased read performance

• RAID 1E – Data mirroring extended to maximize balanced performance. Allows odd number drive mirroring

• RAID 5 – Striped parity on 3-16 drives, ultimate data protection, capacity and performance balance

• RAID 6 – Double parity for maximum data protection on 4-16 drives; allows double drive failures

without downtime or data loss

• RAID 10 – Mirrored pair of RAID 0 for double drive failure protection; can be split into two RAID 0 sets

• RAID 50 – Striped multiple RAID 5 sets to improve performance and provide additional data protection

• RAID 60 – Striped multiple RAID 6 sets to allow multiple drive failures to achieve high-data availability

RAID Fault Tolerance and Robustness Features

• Multiple logical drive support enables combining different RAID levels on one set of disks

• Read Check table to avoid data read errors

• PerfectRAID™ technology for error handling and recovery of fatal, media and disk errors

• Support hot swap of failed drives and hot spares

• Automatic/Manual rebuild of hot spare drive

• Background initialization for instant drive availability

• Supports bad sector remapping

• Variable stripe block size support to meet various application requirements

• Synchronization can be scheduled periodically for RAID data consistency

Web-based Promise Array Manager

• Creates, deletes, expands, and converts disk arrays remotely

• Media Patrol and Redundancy Check scheduling

• Monitors drive, array, and enclosure status and provides online event logging

• Email notification of drive, array, controller or enclosure events

(e.g. error or degrade conditions)

• Remote management based on industry standard CIM/WBEM

• Interface displays in 10 languages

• CLI support

• Remote firmware update

Operating System Support

• Microsoft Windows Vista, 2000, XP, Windows Server 2003

• Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Miracle Linux, Fedora Core, Linux open source driver (32/64-bit)

• FreeBSD, VMware 3.0.1/3.0.2

Platform Support

• Intel IA32, EM64T, and AMD64

SuperBuild™ BIOS

• Array configuration utility at the BIOS level

• BIOS Boot specification support: boot system from any array

• Flash-upgradeable BIOS for future upgrades

Enclosure Management

• SES-2

• SGPIO

• I²C

Cable in Kit

One 0.5-meter multi-lane cable (SFF-8087 to SFF-8087)

Operating Temperature

0 to 50°C (40°C w/ BBU)Relative humidity: 5%-95% non-condensing

Physical Dimensions

16.7 cm x 6.8 cm (6.6” x 2.7”)

Agency Certifications

UL, cUL, CE, FCC Class B, BSMI, VCCI, MIC, C-tick