Product Specifications: The Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS144E supports both serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and serial ATA (SATA) disk drives. Supporting dual architectures allows solutions to be customized for performance, reliability, system expansion flexibility and hard drive capacity. The RAID Controller SRCSAS144E provides flexibility and helps lower total cost of ownership with a standardized server and storage infrastructure. It is designed with four internal SAS ports and four external SAS ports; and the controller utilizes a x4 or wider PCI Express* server board slot.
Supports SAS devices at speeds up to 300MB/second per port
Supports the SATA II protocol over SAS transport
Contains four internal SAS ports and four external SAS ports
Supports up to 32 physical devices and 64 logical drives
Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50.
Online capacity expansion
Online RAID level migration
Physical drive roaming
RAID controller migration
Fast virtual drive initialization
Hot spare drive configuration, both private and global
SAS/SATA drive hot plug
Auto rebuild
Variable data stripe size configured per virtual drive
128 MB of ECC DDR2 SDRAM integrated on the controller
Read and write cache policy
SAF-TE, SES2, and SGPIO intelligent enclosure support