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Avago Technologies MegaRAID SAS 8204ELP User Manual

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Summary of SAS RAID Controller Characteristics

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Cache Configurations –

Support for 128- and 256-Mbyte DDR1 333 MHz on-board SDRAM
with remote LSIiBBU01 intelligent battery backup (SAS 8304ELP,
SAS 8308ELP, and SAS 8344ELP RAID controllers)

Support for a 256 Mbyte DDR2 400 MHz on-board SDRAM with
LSIiTBBU02 intelligible transportable battery backup (SAS 8408E
and SAS 8480E RAID controllers)

Support for 256 Mbyte on-board SDRAM with remote LSIiBBU01
intelligent battery backup (SAS 84016E RAID controller)

Connectors –

One internal connector for the SAS 8204ELP and SAS 8204XLP
RAID controllers

Two internal connectors for the SAS 8208ELP, SAS 8208XLP, SAS
8304ELP, SAS 8308ELP, and SAS 8408E RAID controllers

Four internal connectors for the SAS 84016E RAID controller

One external connector and one internal connector for the SAS
8344ELP RAID controller

Two external connectors for the SAS 8480E RAID controller

Software and Hardware Features –

Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50

Advanced array configuration and management utilities

Online RAID level migration

Drive migration

Drive roaming

Patrol read

No reboot necessary after expansion

More than 200 Qtags per array

Hardware clustering support on the board

User-specified rebuild rate