Intel AXXRMS2AF080 Hardware User Guide - Page 31

Specification SATA bus speed SAS/SATA ports Physical and virtual drive support Firmware Compatible devices Cabling Redundant configuration Enclosure management Enclosure support Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and RMS2AF080 Upto 6 Gbps per port, point-to-point 4 internal ports, 16 devices Up to 64 physical drives including up to 16 physical drives in up to 16 RAID arrays per controller. Drives not configured as part of a RAID array can be configured as "pass through" drives in Non-RAID mode. 16 MB in reflashable flash ROM • .5-inch and 3.5-inch SAS or SATA II drives including SSD drives • Non disk devices including expanders • Can support drives of mixed capacity Small thin cables that do not restrict airflow and Shared connectors for multiple drives 32 KB NVRAM and config-on-disk (COD) In-band and out-of-band SES2; out-of-band SGPIO Assumes one SEP per enclosure Array Performance Features Table 5. Array Performance Features Specification Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and RMS2AF080 Host data transfer rate Upto 5.0 Gigabit/sec per PCI Express* lane Drive data transfer rate Upto 6 Gigabit/sec per lane Maximum scatter/gather 80 elements Maximum size of I/O requests 6.4 Mbytes in 64 Kbyte stripes Maximum queue tags per drive As many as the drive can accept Strip size 8, 16, 32, or 64 KB Maximum concurrent commands 1024 - 16 Support for multiple initiators Yes Performance Native command queuing Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS2AF040 and RMS2AF080 Hardware User's Guide 21