LSI LSI00141 Leaflet

MegaRAID

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 SAS 8708ELP

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

 

 

 

Product Brief

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Keeping electronic data online and available 
is essential to running a successful business.  
Making sure that data is protected – while 
remaining instantly accessible – requires faster, 
smarter solutions.  The MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP, 
a second generation SAS/SATA RAID product 
from LSI, addresses these demands in a cost-ef-
fective, yet powerful internal RAID solution for 
entry server and small office environments. The 
MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP adapter features the 
LSI SAS1078 IC, a powerful I/O storage engine 
that transparently performs all the data protec-
tion, data checking, and restoration tasks.  The 
low profile PCI adapter offers eight internal 
3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) ports on two 
SFF8087 mini multi-Lane connectors, 128MB 
DDR II write cache, and PCI Express host inter-
face.  Also, system builders can choose high 
performance SAS disks or low cost, high capac-
ity SATA drives – or a combination of both – for 
greater system design flexibility.  The 8708ELP 
offers support for both SAS expanders as well 
as SATA native command queuing (NCQ).

Support for 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 lots of high- 
capacity, lower-cost SATA disk drives.

Check consistency and Patrol Read, advanced 
background sentry services that find and fix 
bad media blocks on disk drives, offer critical 
business applications unparalleled data protec-
tion capabilities.

The MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP is designed to  
excel in both high I/O transaction and high 
bandwidth processing.  With an integrated 
500MHz PowerPC and industry leading 667MHz  
write cache, the 8708ELP delivers impressive  
performance numbers – up to 900MB/s through-
put – allowing 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 manage 
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

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

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