Intelligent Power Management

½ length / full height

512MB of DDR2 memory

• Supports 16 direct-attached or up to 256 SATA or SAS disk drives using SAS expanders 
• RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50 and 60
• Quick initialization
• Online Capacity Expansion
• Copyback Hot Spare
• Dynamic caching algorithm
• Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• Background initialisation
• Hot-plug drive support
• RAID Level Migration 
• Hot spares – global, dedicated and pooled
• Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spares
• SAF-TE enclosure management 
• Configurable stripe size
• S.M.A.R.T. support
• Up to 512TB array sizes
• Multiple arrays per disk drive
• Bad stripe table
• Dynamic sector repair
• Staggered drive spin-up
• Bootable array support
• Optimized Disk Utilization

8-lane PCIe

1 external (SFF-8088) Mini SAS

• Adaptec RAID 51245 Controller
• Quick Installation Guide
(English/French/German/Italian/Spanish)
• Software and documentation CDs
• Cables: three internal Mini SAS x4 to (4x) SATA fanout cables w/ sideband, 0.5 meter

Management Utilities

Adaptec Storage Manager™ (ASM)
• Java-based GUI Management Utility
• Remote configuration, monitoring & notification
• ASM OS Support: Windows, Linux, SCO, Solaris, FreeBSD
• Microsoft VDS Support
• SNMP, SMTP
• Remote firmware updates

ARCCONF
• Command Line Interface
• SMI-S support for VMware

Adaptec BIOS Utility (ACU)
• BIOS-level configuration utility
• Flashable BIOS support

Physical Size

4.6” H x 6.43” L (116mm x 164mm)

Operating Temperature

0°C to 55°C* (with 200 LFM airflow; without battery)
0°C to 40°C* (with 200 LFM airflow; with battery)

Note: This Adaptec card contains a powerful RAID processor which requires adequate airflow to operate reliably. Please install this card only into server or PC chassis with recommended airflow (200 LFM).

* Ambient temperature measured 1" away from the RAID processor

Operating Voltage

0.47 amp @ 3.3V
1.8 amp @ 12V

Regulatory Certification

CE, FCC, UL, C-tick, VCCI

Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)

873,402 hours at 40°C