Intel AXXRMS2AF040, Hardware User'S Manual

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Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and RMS2AF080 Hardware User’s Guide 21
Array Performance Features
Table 5. Array Performance Features
SATA bus speed Upto 6 Gbps per port, point-to-point
SAS/SATA ports 4 internal ports, 16 devices
Physical and virtual drive
support
Up to 64 physical drives including up to 16 physical drives in
up to 16 RAID arrays per controller.
Drives not configured as part of a RAID array can be
configured as “pass through” drives in Non-RAID mode.
Firmware 16 MB in reflashable flash ROM
Compatible devices
•
.5-inch and 3.5-inch SAS or SATA II drives including SSD
drives
•
Non disk devices including expanders
•
Can support drives of mixed capacity
Cabling Small thin cables that do not restrict airflow and Shared
connectors for multiple drives
Redundant configuration 32 KB NVRAM and config-on-disk (COD)
Enclosure management In-band and out-of-band SES2; out-of-band SGPIO
Enclosure support Assumes one SEP per enclosure
Specification
Intel
®
Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and
RMS2AF080
Specification
Intel
®
Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and
RMS2AF080
Host data transfer rate Upto 5.0 Gigabit/sec per PCI Express* lane
Drive data transfer rate Upto 6 Gigabit/sec per lane
Maximum scatter/gather 80 elements
Maximum size of I/O requests 6.4 Mbytes in 64 Kbyte stripes
Maximum queue tags per
drive As many as the drive can accept
Strip size 8, 16, 32, or 64 KB
Maximum concurrent
commands 1024 - 16
Support for multiple initiators Yes
Performance Native command queuing