Benefits

• 6Gb/s performance RAID adapters support both SAS and SATA devices and offer unique features including Zero Maintenance Cache Protection and Intelligent Power Management.
• Ideal for bandwidth intensive storage applications; NAS, online transaction processing servers (OLTP), web servers, digital surveillance and streaming applications.
• For dense-server applications Series 6T with recessed top-mounted connectors provide maximum hardware flexibility and all the same performance and features as Series 6.

Key Differentiators

• Hardware RAID functionality
• Hybrid RAID
• Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection
• Intelligent Power Management

Customer Needs

High I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing; solutions that reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs.

Key RAID Features

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

Management Utilities

• 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

• Command Line Interface
• SMI-S support for VMware

• BIOS level configuration utility
• Flashable BIOS support

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows
• Red Hat Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Fedora
• Debian Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• Sun Solaris
• FreeBSD
• VMware ESX