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Standard RAID Controller Features, Array-level Features

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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

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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 maxCache
TM
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