Features and specifications

The IBM 6 Gb SAS Host Bus Adapter has the following specifications:

• Four internal SATA connectors
• One external SAS x4 connector (SFF-8088)
• PCI Express x8 2.0 host interface
• SAS Controller: LSI SAS2008
• 6 Gbps per port data transfer rate
• MD2 small form factor
• High performance I/O Processor: PowerPC 440 @ 533 MHz
• uEFI support
• RAID levels : None (uses RAID as provided by external disk enclosures)
• Maximum endpoint devices: 512
• Power consumption: 13.5 W

The IBM 6 Gb SAS Host Bus Adapter has the following key features:

• Connection to supported internal and external tape drives
• Connection to supported external storage controllers
• Power management support
• Support for SSP, SMP, STP and SATA protocols - flexible to optimize costs
• Environmentally friendly due to low power consumption
• LSI Fusion-MPT architecture drives more than 290,000 I/Os per second
• End-to-End CRC with Advanced Error Reporting
• T-10 Protection Model for early detection of and recovery from data corruption
• Spread Spectrum Clocking for EMI reductions