Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller
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Standard RAID Controller Features
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Support for SAS, SATA, and SATA II disk drives
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Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID
Configuration utility
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Disk drive hot-swapping
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Event logging and broadcasting including email and SNMP messages
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Multiple options for creating and managing RAID arrays—A full software application
(Adaptec Storage Manager), a BIOS-based utility (ACU), a command line utility
(ARCCONF), and a DOS utility (see
Managing Your Storage Space
on page 57
)
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Native command queuing (NCQ), which lets disk drives arrange commands into the most
efficient order for optimum performance
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Support for disk drive enclosures with SES2 enclosure management hardware
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Support for a battery backup module (see
page 17
)
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Support for a zero maintenance cache protection module (see
page 36
)
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Audible alarm
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Power-management of disk drives in your storage space to reduce cooling and electricity
costs (see
page 83
)
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I/O statistics logging and automatic forwarding for remote analysis (“call home”)
Array-level Features
Note:
Not all features are supported by all controllers. For more information, refer to the Adaptec
Storage Manager User’s Guide or online Help.
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Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, simple volumes, and spanned
volumes
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Support for JBOD disks (appear as a physical disk drives to the operating system; not
redundant)
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Support for hot spares (global and dedicated)
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Support for automatic failover, so arrays are automatically rebuilt when a failed disk drive is
replaced (applies to redundant arrays in SES2- or SAF-TE-enabled disk drive enclosures
only
)
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Optimized disk utilization, which ensures that the full capacity of all disk drives can be
used, even if the disk drives vary in size
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Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of an array without recreating it
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Support for array migration from one RAID level to another
Advanced Data Protection Suite
Note:
The following features are supported by Adaptec 5-Series controllers only.
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Copyback Hot Spare
—You can use this feature to move data from a hot spare back to its
original location after a failed disk drive is replaced.