Hardware
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1.3
Hardware
You can install the Intel
®
RAID Controller SRCU42E in a computer with a system board that
has a x8 or x16 PCI Express slot.
The following subsections describe the hardware configuration and configuration-on-disk.
1.3.1
RAID Controller Configurations
Table 1-1 describes the features of the RAID Controller SRCU42E.
Table 1-1
Intel
®
Raid Controller SRCU42E Features
Feature
Description
RAID Levels
0, 1, 5, 10, 50
SCSI Device Types
Synchronous or Asynchronous
Devices per SCSI Channel
Up to 15 Wide SCSI devices
SCSI Channels
2
SCSI Data Transfer Rate
Up to 320 Mbytes/s per channel
SCSI Bus
LVD or SE
Cache Function
Write-back (requires Portable Cache Module), Write-through,
Adaptive Read Ahead, Non Read Ahead, Read Ahead, Cache I/O,
Direct I/O
Multiple Logical Drives/Arrays
per Controller
Up to 40 logical drives per controller
Online Capacity Expansion
Yes
Dedicated and Pool Hot Spare
Yes
Hot Swap Devices Supported
Yes
Non-Disk Devices Supported
Yes
Mixed Capacity Hard Disk
Drives
Yes
Number of 16-bit Internal
Connectors
2
Number of 16-bit External
Connectors
2
Cluster Support
Yes
Hardware Exclusive OR (XOR)
Assistance
Yes
Direct I/O
Yes
Architecture
Fusion-MPT™
