SAS RAID 0/1 controller (based on LSI 1064e)

The controller LSI SAS RAID 0/1 based on LSI MegaRAID^® doubles the performance of today’s dual channel Ultra320 SCSI HBAs by connecting an 4-lane 2.5Gb/s PCI Express bus with up to eight 3Gb/s SAS/SATA ports. It offers leading SAS and SATA RAID and non-RAID data off-load for medium to high-capacity internal server storage applications.

Features & Benefits

Features	Benefits
Double the performance for dual channel HBAs	Due to four-track 2.5GB/s PCI-Express bus with up to eight 3GB/s SAS/SATA ports
SAS and SATA hard disk support	The SAS HBA supports 1.5 and 3GB/s SAS and SATA hard disk drives
Freedom of HDD connector choice	Thanks to general electrical and physical connections there is a freedom of choice as regards HDD connector technology
Cost reductions for business-critical operations with simultaneous performance delivery	Thanks to the flexibility of eight SAS ports, which control an internal SAS/SATA drive configuration

Technical details

Controller Silicon	LSI SAS1064E (4 port internal) LSI SAS1068E (8 port internal)
Bus type	PCIe 1.0a
Key RAID Data Protection Feature	RAID Fault Tolerant- and Flexibility-Features -RAID levels 0, 1 and 1E -Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) (only supported with one logical drive per RAID array) - Online RAID level migration (RLM) - Variable Stripe Size for all logical drives - Fast initialization for quick array setup - Advanced error recognition of drives (Patrol Read) - Background initialization for RAID 1and 1E - Hot spare dives configurable - up to 8 physical disk drives with the 8 port controller, up to 4 with the 4 port controller - up to 2 logical RAID drives per controller