Intel® Server Board M50CYP2SB Family Technical Product Specification
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By using Intel® VROC 7.5, there is no loss of PCIe* resources or add-in card slot. Intel® VROC 7.5 functionality
requires the following:
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The embedded RAID option must be enabled in BIOS Setup.
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Intel® VROC 7.5 option must be selected in BIOS Setup.
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Intel® VROC 7.5 drivers must be loaded for the installed operating system.
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At least two SATA drives needed to support RAID levels 0 or 1.
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At least three SATA drives needed to support RAID level 5.
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At least four SATA drives needed to support RAID level 10.
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NVMe* SSDs and SATA drives must not be mixed within a single RAID volume.
With Intel® VROC 7.5 software RAID enabled, the following features are made available:
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A boot-time, pre-operating-system environment, text-mode user interface that allows the user to
manage the RAID configuration in the system. Its feature set is kept simple to keep size to a minimum
but allows the user to create and delete RAID volumes and select recovery options when problems
occur. The user interface can be accessed by pressing
<CTRL-I>
during system POST.
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Boot support when using a RAID volume as a boot disk. It does this by providing Int13 services when
a RAID volume needs to be accessed by MS-DOS applications (such as NT loader: NTLDR) and by
exporting the RAID volumes to the system BIOS for selection in the boot order.
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At each boot-up, a status of the RAID volumes provided to the user.
8.2
M.2 SSD Storage Support
The server board includes two M.2 SSD connectors as shown in the following figure. The connectors are
labeled
“
M2_x4PCIE/SSATA_1 (port 0)
”
and
“
M2_x4PCIE/SSATA_2 (port 1)
”
on the board. Each M.2 slot
supports a PCIe* NVMe* or SATA drive that conforms to a 22110 (110 mm) or 2280 (80 mm) form factor.
Each M.2 slot is connected to four PCIe* lanes from the chipset’s embedded controller. The M.
2 NVMe*
drives can be combined into a VROC RAID volume.
Figure 48. M.2 Module Connector Location
