LSI LSI00159 Prospecto

MegaRAID

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 SAS 8880EM2

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

 

 

 

Product Brief

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Today’s newest external enclosure designs are 
based on architectures that support both SATA 
and SAS hard drives.  The MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2, 
with eight external SAS/SATA ports, is the ideal 
solution for configuring these external enclosures 
with either high-performance SAS drives or high- 
capacity SATA drives.  This second-generation 
MegaRAID adapter features an LSISAS1078  
storage processor, the fastest DDRII memory 
available today, and a x8 PCI Express host 
interface to provide the ultimate performance 
for external applications.  Since system builders 
can use the MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2 to support 
one enclosure design that can be populated 
with either SAS or SATA hard drives, they can 
ultimately reduce the total cost of ownership, 
maximize the overall value of the investment, 
and reduce the number of supported skus. 

The MegaRAID SAS 8880EM2 supports all 
key RAID levels including RAID 6 and 60 for 
increased fault tolerance. RAID 6 tolerates two 
simultaneous drive failures, and thus the ability 
to manage unrecoverable media errors during 
re-builds. This is particularly useful when using 
a lot of high-capacity SATA disk drives. 

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 and a full spectrum of online  
RAID management utilities. This new suite of  
applications allow administrators to adjust SAS  
topology views from the system host, control-
ler and disk enclosure down to the logical and 
physical drive level.  Extending to enterprise 
deployments, these tools scale to easily config-
ure, monitor and manage RAID volumes locally 
or over the LAN network.

The MegaRAID LSIiBBU07 is a battery- 
backup module that protects the integrity of 
the cached data on a MegaRAID controller in 
the event of a complete power or server failure.  
This add-on module, which connects directly  
to the adapter, has the added functionality  
to automatically charge the battery pack  
and communicate with the host system the 
battery status, such as voltage, temperature, 
and capacity.  

Industry’s Most Trusted SAS/SATA RAID Adapters for External  
Enclosure Connectivity

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