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Intel® RAID Adapters RSP3TD160, RSP3MD088, RSP3DD080 and RSP3WD080 Hardware User Guide
Background Consistency Checking
Patrol Read for Media Functionality
S.M.A.R.T Support
Enclosure Management
RAID Support Before Operating
System Loaded
Write Back Cache with optional
Protection
Intel® RAID Management Software
Hot-Spare Support, Global &
Dedicated
2.7
Fault Tolerance Features
The next table describes the Fault-tolerant features of the Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapters
Support for SMART
Drive failure detection
Drive rebuild using hot spares
Parity generation and checking
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The Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) detects up to 70 percent of all
predictable drive failures. In addition, SMART monitors the internal performance of all motors,
heads, and drive electronics.
2.8
Array Performance Features
The next table describes the Array performance features of the Intel® Tri-Mode RAID adapters
PCI Express host data transfer rate 8GT/s per lane
Drive data transfer rate
Maximum scatter/gather I/O
Maximum size of I/O requests
Maximum queue tags per drive
Strip sizes
Maximum number of concurrent
commands
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Table 3. Fault-tolerant features
Specification
A
Yes
Automatic
Automatic
Yes
Table 4. Array performance features
Specification
12Gb/s per lane
80 elements
6.4 MB in 64-KB strips
As many as the drive
can accept
8 KB, 16 KB, 32 KB, 64
KB, 128 KB, 256 KB,
255
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSP3TD160F
RSP3MD088 RSP3DD080F
Yes
Automatic
Automatic
Yes
RSP3MD088F
RSP3TD160F
8GT/s per lane 8GT/s per lane
12Gb/s per
lane
80 elements
6.4 MB in 64-
KB strips
As many as the
drive can
8 KB, 16 KB, 32
KB, 64 KB, 128
255
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Only Global
RSP3WD080E
Yes
Yes
Automatic
Automatic
Automatic
Automatic
Yes
Yes
RSP3DD080F
RSP3WD080E
8GT/s per lane
12Gb/s per lane 12Gb/s per lane
80 elements
80 elements
6.4 MB in 64-KB
6.4 MB in 64-KB
strips
strips
As many as the
As many as the
drive can accept
drive can accept
8 KB, 16 KB, 32
64K
KB, 64 KB, 128
255
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