Adaptec 6805Q 2270700-R User Manual

Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller

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About the Adaptec RAID 5445Z

The Adaptec RAID 5445Z is a SAS RAID controller with these features:

Form Factor

Low-profile MD2

Bus compatibility

PCIe 1.1

PCIe bus width

x8

Data transfer rate

3 Gb/s per port

Phys (Unified Serial Ports)

8

Standard cache

512 MB DDR2

Connectors

1 mini-SAS x4 (SFF-8087) internal 
1 mini-SAS x4 (SFF-8088) external

Maximum number of disk drives

8 direct-attached (or up to 256 with expanders)

Enclosure Support

I2C and SGPIO (Serial General Purpose Input/Output)

Onboard speaker

Yes

Zero Maintenance Cache 
Protection Module

Adaptec ZMM-100DB daughterboard (pre-installed), 
Adaptec ZMM-100CC supercapacitor module (user 
installed—see 

Mounting bracket

PCIe x8 connector

Internal mini-SAS 
connector CN0

Mode 0 Flash connector

Drive Activity LED connectors for CN0/CN1

Ext. Alarm connector

Diagnostic LEDs

Drive Activity LEDs for CN0/CN1

Aggregate Activity

ZMM-100CC Supercapacitor 
connector

1 external 
mini-SAS 
connector 

I2C connectors for CN0/CN1

ZMM-100DB 
Daughterboard

CN1