Technical Specifications - IBM ServeRAID M5110e Product Manual

Technical specifications

The ServeRAID M5110 and M5110e SAS/SATA controllers have the following specifications:
PCI Low Profile, Half-length - MD2 form factor (M5110) or onboard chip (M5110e)
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Eight internal 6 Gbps SAS/SATA ports
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Two internal Mini-SAS connectors (SFF-8087)
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6 Gbps throughput per port
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800 MHz dual-core IBM PowerPC® processor with LSI SAS2208 6 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC)
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controller
PCI Express 3.0 x8 host interface
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Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 10 standard; support for RAID 5, 50 and 6, 60 with optional upgrades
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Optional onboard data cache (DDR3 running at 1333 MHz) with the choice of:
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512 MB with optional battery backup
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512 MB or 1 GB with flash backup (MegaRAID CacheVault technology)
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Support for SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs
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Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs; mixing different types of drives in the same
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array (drive group) not recommended
Connections to up to 32 internal drives, depending on the server model
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Optional support for self-encrypting drives (SEDs) with MegaRAID SafeStore
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Optional support for SSD performance acceleration with MegaRAID FastPath and SSD caching with
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MegaRAID CacheCade Pro 2.0
Support for up to 64 virtual drives, up to 128 drive groups, up to 16 virtual drives per one drive group,
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and up to 32 physical drives per one drive group
Support for logical unit number (LUN) sizes up to 64 TB
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Configurable stripe size up to 1 MB
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Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (COD)
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S.M.A.R.T. support
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MegaRAID Storage Manager management software
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ServeRAID M5110 and M5110e SAS/SATA Controllers for IBM System x 6