Sas Adapters For External Storage - Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 Product Manual

SAS adapters for external storage

The following table lists SAS HBAs and RAID adapters supported by SR860 server for use with external
storage.
Table 28. Adapters for external storage
Part Feature
number code
SAS HBAs
7Y37A01090 AUNR
7Y37A01091 AUNN
External RAID adapters
7Y37A01087 AUNQ
For more information, see the list of Lenovo Press Product Guides in the Host bus adapters and RAID
adapters categories:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/hba
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/raid
The following table compares the specifications of the external SAS HBAs and RAID adapters.
Table 29. Comparison of external storage adapters
Feature
Adapter type
Part number
Controller chip
Broadcom equivalent
Host interface
Port interface
Number of ports
Port connectors
Drive interface
Drive type
Hot-swap drives
Maximum devices
RAID levels
JBOD mode
Cache
CacheVault cache protection
Performance Accelerator
(FastPath)
SSD Caching (CacheCade Pro
2.0)
SED support*
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 Server
Description
ThinkSystem 430-8e SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA
ThinkSystem 430-16e SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA
ThinkSystem RAID 930-8e 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb
Adapter
430-8e
HBA
7Y37A01090
LSI SAS3408
HBA 9400-8e
PCIe 3.0x8
12 Gb SAS
8
2x Mini-SAS HD
SFF8644
SAS/SATA
HDD/SSD/SED*
Yes
512 (planned: 1024)
None
Yes
None
None
No
No
Yes
Slots
supported
1-7, 10, 11, 13-15 10
1-7, 10, 11, 13-15 10
1-7, 10, 11, 13-15 4
430-16e
HBA
7Y37A01091
LSI SAS3416
HBA 9400-16e
PCIe 3.0x8
12 Gb SAS
16
4x Mini-SAS HD
SFF8644
SAS/SATA
HDD/SSD/SED*
Yes
512 (planned: 1024)
None
Yes
None
None
No
No
Yes
Maximum
supported
930-8e
External RAID
7Y37A01087
LSI SAS3508
MegaRAID 9480-8e
PCIe 3.0x8
12 Gb SAS
8
2x Mini-SAS HD
SFF8644
SAS,SATA
HDD,SED,SSD
Yes
64 (planned: 216)
0/1/10/5/50/6/60
Yes
4GB (Standard)
Yes (Flash)
Yes
No
Yes
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