Technical specifications

The ServeRAID M1215 SAS/SATA Controller has the following specifications:

• LSI SAS3008 12 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC) controller
• PCI Low Profile, Half-length - MD2 form factor
• Eight internal 12 Gbps SAS/SATA ports
• Two internal mini-SAS HD connectors (SFF-8643)
• Supports 12, 6, and 3 Gbps SAS and 6 and 3 Gbps SATA data transfer rates
• Up to 12 Gbps throughput per port
• PCI Express 3.0 x8 host interface
• Support both RAID and JBOD (pass-thru mode with system drives) configurations
  • Up to 32 drives, including hot spares, are supported in a RAID configuration.
  • Up to 64 drives are supported in a JBOD (non-RAID) configuration.
• Support for RAID levels 0, 1, and 10 standard; support for RAID 5, 50 with optional upgrade
• Zero Controller Cache, no battery/flash backup
• Support for SAS and SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)
• Support for simple swap and hot swap drives
• Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs. Mixing different types of drives in the same array (drive group) not supported.
• Optional support for self-encrypting drives (SEDs) with MegaRAID SafeStore
• Support for up to 32 virtual drives, up to 32 drive groups, up to 16 virtual drives per one drive group, and up to 32 physical drives per one drive group
• Support for virtual drive sizes greater than 2 TB
• Fixed stripe size of 64 KB
• Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (COD)
• S.M.A.R.T. support
• MegaRAID Storage Manager management software