Adaptec 2268300R Manuel D’Utilisation

Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller

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Standard RAID Controller Features

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Support for SAS disk drives, SATA/SATA II disk drives, and SATA and SAS Solid State 
Drives (SSDs)

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Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID 
Configuration utility

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Disk drive hot-swapping

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Event logging and broadcasting including email and SNMP messages

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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 

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Native command queuing (NCQ), which lets disk drives arrange commands into the most 
efficient order for optimum performance

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Support for disk drive enclosures with SES2 enclosure management hardware

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Support for a battery backup module (see 

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Support for a zero maintenance cache protection module (see 

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Support for Adaptec maxCache

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 SSD caching (see 

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Note: 

Adaptec

 

maxCache is supported on Adaptec Series Q controllers only. 

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Power-management of disk drives in your storage space to reduce cooling and electricity 
costs (see 

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Audible alarm

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I/O statistics logging

Array-level Features

Note: 

Not all features are supported by all controllers. For more information, refer to the Adaptec 

 or online Help.

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Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, simple volumes, and spanned 
volumes

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Support for hybrid RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays comprised of hard drives and Solid State 
Drives (SSDs) 

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Support for JBOD disks (appear as a physical disk drives to the operating system; not 
redundant)

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Support for hot spares (global and dedicated)

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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)

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Optimized disk utilization, which ensures that the full capacity of all disk drives can be 
used, even if the disk drives vary in size

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Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of an array without recreating it

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Support for array migration from one RAID level to another