Feature Summary
Intel® Storage Server SSR212MC2
8 Revision
1.2
1.3 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Host Bus Adapter
The Intel® Storage Server SSR212MC2R sku ships with a single Intel
®
RAID Controller
SRCSAS144E, x4 PCI Express to SAS Host Bus Adapter (HBA). The SAS HBA board provides
the following feature set:
Table 3: Intel
®
RAID Controller SRCSAS144E features
Feature
Intel
®
RAID Controller SRCSAS144E
RAID levels
0, 1, 5, 10, 50
Number of devices Up to 32 devices per controller
NOTE: Up to 12 front accessible carrier mounted hard disk drives are supported in the
Intel® Storage Server SSR212MC2. The remaining 20 devices may be supported via the
external SAS connector & external JBOD.
Device types
SAS or SATA hard drives
Data transfer rate
300 MB/s per port
PCI bus
x4 PCI Express*
Memory
128 MB ECC DDR2 400 SDRAM Integrated on the Controller
Battery backup
External battery module (AXRIBBU1)
SAS connector
One internal SSF8087 connector and one external SFF8470 connector.
IOP Intel
®
80333 I/O processor, which performs hardware exclusive OR (XOR) assistance
Card dimensions
7.71 inches by 2.525 inches
Serial port
4-pin serial debug (requires transceiver)
Compatible devices 32 physical devices, 64 logical drive, mixed capacity, mixed SATA and SAS (not
recommended)
Firmware
4 Mbit in flash ROM
Please refer to the Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS144E Hardware Users Guide
available at
http://support.intel.com
for more information.
1.4 Hot Swap Backplane
The SATA/SAS Hot Swap backplane board provides the following feature set:
Table 4: SATA/SAS Hot Swap backplane features
Feature
Description
Supports up to 12
drives.
Slots provided for docking up to twelve 1.5 or 3.0 Gigabits per second (Gb/s)
SAS or SATA hot swap hard drives
Enclosure
Management
Controller
•
On-board Vitesse** VSC055 micro-controller with 256Kbit external SRAM
memory2 SAS Host Controller I
2
C Interfaces
•
SATA and SAS extension compatibility
•
Hot swap support for up to 12 SAS or SATA Drives
FRU/Configuration
SEEPROM
A Vitesse** VSC055* provides a serial EEPROM memory for storage of
configuration and product FRU information.
