LSI MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP MRSAS8704ELP-KIT Leaflet

MegaRAID

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 SAS 8704ELP

Four-Port 3Gb/s PCI Express SAS RAID On Chip Adapter   

 

 

 

Product Brief

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The four-port MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP, a  
second-generation SAS/SATA RAID product  
from LSI, eliminates the need to choose between  
cost and performance by supporting both 
high-value SATA drives and high-performance 
SAS drives.  With this adapter, based on the 
same proven MegaRAID technology used by 
the world’s most powerful servers, users can 
rest assured that they are enjoying maximum 
protection for the critical data that drives their  
business.  It features the LSISAS1078 IC, a pow-
erful storage I/O engine that transparently  
performs all the data protection, data checking  
and restoration tasks.  Additionally, the low-
profile MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP offers four 
internal SAS/SATA ports on one multi-lane 
connector (SFF8087), 128MB DDRII cache, and 
a PCI Express host interface.

The second-generation SAS/SATA RAID adapters  
from LSI support all key RAID levels including 
RAID 6 and 60.  RAID 6 tolerates two simultaneous  
failures, and thus the ability to manage unre-
coverable media errors during rebuilds.  This is 
particularly useful when using large quantities 
of high-capacity SATA disk drives.

The MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP is designed to 
excel in both high I/O transaction and high 
bandwidth processing. With an integrated 
500MHz PowerPC core and industry-leading 
667MHz write cache, the 8704ELP delivers  
impressive performance numbers: 900MB/s 
reads and 300MB/s writes.  Furthermore,  
steaming video or data backup applications 
run faster than ever with 1MB stripe  
configurations.

The MegaRAID Management Suite™ provides 
the essential software tools to efficiently man-
age MegaRAID products, whether deployed 
in an enterprise or small business. LSI offers a 
collection of applications and tools including 
a pre-boot setup utility as well a full spectrum 
of online RAID management utilities. This new 
suite of applications allow administrators to 
adjust SAS topology views from the system 
host, controller and disk enclosure down to 
the logical and physical drive level. Extending 
to enterprise deployments, the powerful tools 
easily scale to efficiently configure, monitor 
and manage RAID volumes locally or over the 
LAN network.

Protect Business Critical Data with the Industry’s  
Most Trusted SAS/SATA RAID Adapters

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