Adaptec 6405E User Manual and Install Guide - Page 19
Standard RAID Controller Features, Array-level Features - firmware
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Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 18 Standard RAID Controller Features ● Support for SAS disk drives, SATA/SATA II disk drives, and SATA and SAS Solid State Drives (SSDs) ● Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration utility ● Disk drive hot-swapping ● Event logging and broadcasting including email and SNMP messages ● Multiple options for creating and managing RAID arrays-A full software application (Adaptec Storage Manager), a BIOS-based utility (ACU), a command line utility (ARCCONF) (see Managing Your Storage Space on page 79) ● Native command queuing (NCQ), which lets disk drives arrange commands into the most efficient order for optimum performance ● Support for disk drive enclosures with SES2 enclosure management hardware ● Support for a battery backup module (see page 19) ● Support for a zero maintenance cache protection module (see page 19) ● Support for Adaptec maxCacheTM SSD caching (see page 109) Note: Adaptec maxCache is supported on Adaptec Series Q controllers only. ● Power-management of disk drives in your storage space to reduce cooling and electricity costs (see page 106) ● Audible alarm ● I/O statistics logging Array-level Features Note: Not all features are supported by all controllers. For more information, refer to the Adaptec Storage Manager User's Guide or online Help. ● Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, simple volumes, and spanned volumes ● Support for hybrid RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays comprised of hard drives and Solid State Drives (SSDs) ● Support for JBOD disks (appear as a physical disk drives to the operating system; not redundant) ● Support for hot spares (global and dedicated) ● Support for automatic failover, so arrays are automatically rebuilt when a failed drive is replaced (applies to redundant arrays in SES2- or SAF-TE-enabled disk drive enclosures only) ● Optimized disk utilization, which ensures that the full capacity of all disk drives can be used, even if the disk drives vary in size ● Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of an array without recreating it ● Support for array migration from one RAID level to another