About Your Raid Expander; Standard Raid Expander Features - Intel RES3TV360 Hardware User's Manual

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About Your RAID Expander

This section provides an overview of the features of your RAID Expander.

Standard RAID Expander Features

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Support for both SAS and SATA devices
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12 Gb/s, 6 Gb/s, 3 Gb/s, or 1.5 Gb/s data transfer rate
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Nine SFF-8643 mini-SAS-HD internal connectors providing 36 SAS/SATA ports
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Supports 8 inputs and 28 outputs configuration
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Output mini-SAS connectors support sideband SGPIO per the SFF-8485
specification
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Power from an RA 4-pin power connector
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On-board screw holds allow the expander card to be mounted on a chassis wall
inside a server system
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Provides a low-latency connection to create and maintain transparent access to each
connected SAS/SATA physical drive
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Staggered spin-up
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Native Command Queuing
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Allows multiple initiators to address a single target
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Supports cascaded expander products
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Each port on the expander card supports SAS devices, SATA II devices, or both
using SSP, SMP, and STP
— Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) to enable communication with other SAS devices
— Serial Management Protocol (SMP) to share topology management information
— Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP) support for SATA II through expander
— SAS protocol, described in the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Standard, version
— SFF-8485 protocol, using the Serial GPIO (SGPIO) interface provided by the
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Enclosure Management
— On-board temperature sensor
— SGPIO
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