LENOVO ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe 12GB Adapter for SR250/SR530/SR550/SR570/SR590/SR630/SR650/SR635/SR645/SR655/SR665/ST50/ST250/ST550

Description

‘The ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i PCIe internal RAID adapter has the following specifications:

• PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface, low profile card
  
• 12 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID controllers, based on the Broadcom MegaRAID 9440 adapter family
  
• Cacheless (not upgradeable)
  
• Connectivity for up to 8 internal SAS or SATA drives, depending on the adapter selected
  
• Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs. Mixing SAS and SATA drives in the same array is not supported. Mixing of HDDs and SSDs in the same array is not supported.
  
• Support for intermixing of 12 Gbps and 6 Gbps drives.
  
• Support for RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50 standard
  
• Support for JBOD (non-RAID) drive state
  
• Support for up to 63 physical drives with SAS expander (where supported)
  
• Support for up to 32 virtual drives
  
• Support for logical drive sizes greater than 2 TB.
  
• Fixed 64 KB stripe size
  
• Supports 512e, 512n and 4K sector formatted drives
  
• Supports UNMAP command for SAS SSDs (JBOD and RAID volumes)
  
• Supports TRIM command for SATA SSDs (JBOD)
  
• Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (CoD).
  
• S.M.A.R.T. support.
  
• Configuration through
  
  • XClarity Provisioning Manager UEFI interface
    
  • XClarity Controller web interface
    
  • XClarity Administrator Configuration Patterns
    
  • StorCLI command-line interface
    
  • LSI Storage Authority (LSA) GUI interface
    
  • UEFI Human Interface Infrastructure (HII)

Note: CacheCade is not supported by this adapter

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