LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i LSI00198 8-port internal 6Gb/s PCIe SATA SAS RAID 0,1,5,6,10,50,60 RAID controller

Features

• Eight internal SATA+SAS ports
• Two mini-SAS SFF-8087 x4 connectors
• 6Gb/s throughput per port
• LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip (ROC)
  o  800MHz PowerPC®
• Low-profile MD2 form factor
• x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
• 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)
• Optional battery backup unit (direct attach)
• Connect up to 32 SATA and/or SAS devices
• RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6
• RAID spans 10, 50 and 60
• Auto-resume on rebuild
• Auto-resume on reconstruction
• Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
• Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
• SafeStore™ Encryption Services
  o  Instant secure erase
• SSD support with SSD Guard™
• Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot spare support
  o  Automatic rebuild
  o  Enclosure affinity
  o  Emergency SATA hot spare for SAS arrays
• Single controller multipathing (failover)
• I/O load balancing
• Comprehensive RAID management suite

Benefits

• Superior performance
  o Maximum reads: 2,875MB/s
  o Maximum writes: 1,850MB/s
• PCI Express 2.0 provides faster signaling for high-bandwidth applications
• Support for 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA and SAS hard drives for maximum inside-the-box flexibility
• SafeStore Encryption Services for more secure data protection
• Low-profile MD2 form factor for space-limited 1U and 2U environments