Product Description
Note: This controller is working
system pulls, in mint condition. It comes with BBU installed and full Advanced
Software options enabled including Cachecade, Fastpath, Safestor & Recovery.
The BBU and advanced software features alone are worth $656 Retail Value.
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i Low-profile MD2 eight-port
internal 6Gb/s PCIe SATA and SAS RAID controller
Overview
The eight-port MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i provides a new level or
performance and data protection for internal storage systems
using up to 32 SATA or SAS hard drives or solid state
drives. With data transfer rates of up to 6Gb/s per port,
the MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i brings users new features and
improved performance while continuing to support all the
features of the previous 3Gb/s SATA and SAS generation. This
value line controller, ideal for inside-the-box
connectivity, employs the latest in RAID-on-Chip technology
and complies with the PCI Express® 2.0 specification for
high-bandwidth applications.
Features
- Eight internal SATA+SAS ports
- Two mini-SAS SFF-8087 x4 connectors
- 6Gb/s throughput per port
- LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip (ROC)
o 800MHz PowerPC®
- Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6Ħħ X
2.536Ħħ)
- x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
- 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)
- Optional battery backup unit (direct
attach)
- Connect up to 32 SATA and/or SAS
devices
- RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6
- RAID spans 10, 50 and 60
- Auto-resume on rebuild
- Auto-resume on reconstruction
- Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
- Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
- SafeStore™ Encryption Services
o Instant secure erase
- SSD support with SSD Guard™
- Global and dedicated hot spare with
revertible hot spare support
o Automatic rebuild
o Enclosure affinity
o Emergency SATA hot spare for SAS
arrays
- Single controller multipathing
(failover)
- I/O load balancing
- Comprehensive RAID management suite
Benefits
- Superior performance
o Maximum reads: 2,875MB/s
o Maximum writes: 1,850MB/s
- PCI Express 2.0 provides faster
signaling for high-bandwidth
applications
- Support for 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA
and SAS hard drives for maximum
inside-the-box flexibility
- SafeStore Encryption Services
for more secure data protection
- Low-profile MD2 form factor for
space-limited 1U and 2U
environments
OS Supported
- Netware 6.5
- Solaris 10 x86
- FreeBSD 6.3, 7.0
- VMWare 4.x
- SCO Openserver 6.0 and Unixware 7.14
- Windows 2003 (b4bit and 32bit)
- Windows 2008 (64bit and 32bit)
- RH3,RH4,RH5
- SLES9, SLES10, SLES11 (32bit and 64bit)
- Windows Vista (32bit and 64bit)
- Windows XP (32bith and 64bit)
- See LSI website for latest OS support and driver download
Documentation
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