IBM ServeRAID 8i SAS SATA2 Controller TotalStorage - open box

This Zero Channel RAID (ZCR) controller performs with new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID technology. With the onboard 256MB memory and 600MHz Intel processor, ServeRAID 8i takes the RAID processing workload from the CPU and offloads it directly to the controller, allowing your CPU ample bandwidth to perform the application processing required.

ServeRAID 8i SAS Controller  (13N2227) performs with new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Raid technology. The ServeRAID 8i is a Zero Channel RAID (ZCR) controller manages your internal data storage in selected xSeries servers. The ServeRAID 8i controller achieves higher performance and up to 10 times higher transfer rates at 3 GB/second than its Ultra-320 SCSI predecessors for a nominal increase in price.

The half-length adapter runs on a dedicated system's PCI-X 64-bit ZCR slot at speeds up to 133 MHz. With the onboard 256Mb memory and 600MHz Intel processor, the ServeRAID 8i takes RAID processing workload and offloads it directly to the controller. This allows your CPU ample bandwidth to perform the application processing required.

ServeRAID 8i SAS Controller offers:

    * RAID levels include 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 60, and IBM exclusive 1E, and 5EE.
    * Performance up to 3GB/seconds of throughput.
    * ServeRAID 8i supports independent and adjustable stripe sizes of 256k and 512k.
    * Additional ServeRAID features such as Logical Drive Migration, Global Hot Spare, Copyback, and FlashCopy? are available to manage your storage drives.
    * Battery backed memory provides added protection for your valuable data.
    * Rebuild and Rapid Restore? features to preserve RAID configurations.
    * ServeRAID Manager software application is available for managing the SAS RAID array configurations.