Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters - Lenovo ThinkServer TD350 Product Manual

SAS adapters for external storage
The following table lists the supported SAS HBAs and RAID adapters.
Table 24. Supported SAS HBAs and RAID adapters
Part number Description
SAS HBAs for external storage
4XB0G88727 Lenovo ThinkServer 8885e PCIe 12Gb 8 port external SAS Adapter by PMC
4XB0F28703 Lenovo ThinkServer 9300-8e PCIe 12Gb 8 Port External SAS Adapter by LSI
RAID controllers for external storage
4XB0F28699 ThinkServer 9286CV-8e PCIe 6Gb 8 Port External SAS RAID Adapter by LSI
Options for the 9286CV-8e controller
4XB0F28702 Lenovo ThinkServer RAID CacheCade Pro 2.0 Key
4XB0G45761 Lenovo ThinkServer CacheVault Data Protection Upgrade II
The following table compares the features of the RAID controllers and HBAs.
Table 25. Features of RAID controllers and SAS HBAs
Feature
Adapter type
Part number
Form factor
Controller chip
Host interface
Port interface
Number of external ports
External port connectors
Drive interface
Drive type
Maximum number of devices
Maximum number of expansion
units
RAID levels
JBOD mode
Cache
CacheVault cache protection
FastPath
CacheCade Pro 2.0
* In addition to eight external ports, the ThinkServer 8885e adapter has eight internal ports.

Fibre Channel host bus adapters

Lenovo ThinkServer TD350 (E5-2600 v4)
9286CV-8e 9300-8e
RAID controller SAS HBA
4XB0F28699 4XB0F28703
Low profile Low profile
LSI SAS2208 LSI SAS3008
PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
6 Gbps SAS 12 Gbps SAS
8 8
2x Mini-SAS (SFF- 2x Mini-SAS HD (SFF-
8088) 8644)
SAS, SATA SAS, SATA
HDD, SSD HDD, SSD
240 1024
8 8
0/1/10/5/50/6/60 None
No Yes
1 GB None
Optional (4XB0G45761) None
Included None
Optional (4XB0F28702) None
Max Supported
(1 CPU / 2 CPU)
3 / 7
3 / 7
2 / 6
1 per card
1 per card
8885e
SAS HBA
4XB0G88727
Low profile
PMC PM8063
PCIe 3.0 x8
12 Gbps SAS
8*
2x Mini-SAS HD (SFF-
8644)
SAS, SATA
HDD, SSD
256
8
None
Yes
1 GB
None
None
None
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