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ThinkSystem 440-16i SAS/SATA PCIe Gen4 12Gb Internal HBA Installation and User
Guide
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PCIe Hot Plug
Power management
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Supports the
PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification Revision 1.2
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Supports Active State Power Management, including the L0 states, by placing links in a power-saving mode
during times of no link activity
Error handling
High bandwidth per pin with low overhead and low latency
Lane reversal and polarity inversion
Single-phy (one-lane) link transfer rate of 16 GT/s, 8 GT/s, 5 GT/s, and 2.5 GT/s in each direction
Eight-lane aggregate bandwidth of up to 16 GB/s (16,000 MB/s)
Support of x8, x4, x2, and x1 link widths
1.3
LED Management
The adapter offers LED management support for SAS/SATA backplane.
1.4
Storage Interface Features
The adapter’s storage interface supports concurrent operation with SAS and SATAdevices to provide a fully functional
solution for any storage environment.
SAS features:
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SAS data transfers at 12Gb/s, 6Gb/s, and 3Gb/s
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DataBolt technology on all SAS phys to improve performance
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Serial, point-to-point, enterprise-level storage interface
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Wide ports that contain multiple phys
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Narrow ports that contain a single phy
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SAS phy power management
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Data transfer by using SCSI information units
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T10 data protection management
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Support for persistent connection capability
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Support for SPL-3 initiate close capability
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Configurable Rx and Tx polarity inversion
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Configurable phy-to-disk mapping
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Configurable SSC
SATA interface features:
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SATA and STP data transfers at 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s
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Addressing of multiple SATA targets through an expander