Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters - Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 Product Manual

The following table summarizes features of supported RAID controllers and HBAs for external storage.
Table 29. Features and specifications of the RAID controllers and HBAs for external storage
Feature
Form factor
SAS controller chip
Host interface
Port interface
Number of ports
Connector type
Number of connectors
Drive interface
Drive type
Hot-swap drive support
Number of devices
RAID levels
JBOD mode
Cache
Cache protection
SED key management (SafeStore)
SSD I/O acceleration (FastPath)
SSD Caching (CacheCade Pro 2.0)
Consistency check
Patrol read
Online capacity expansion
Online RAID level migration
Global Hot Spare
Auto-rebuild
* HBAs do not support key management for SEDs; third-party host software is responsible for managing the keys.
** The SSD caching feature has been phased out in the new generation of advanced RAID controllers.
For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following categories:
RAID adapters
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/raid?rt=product-guide
Host bus adapters
http://lenovopress.com/servers/options/hba?rt=product-guide

Fibre Channel host bus adapters

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 Server
RAID 930-8e
PCIe LP
SAS3508
PCIe 3.0 x8
12 Gb SAS
8
SFF-8644 x4
2
SAS, SATA
HDD, SSD, SED
Yes
480
0/1/10/5/50/6/60
Yes
4 GB
Flash backup (Included)
Yes
Yes
No**
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
430-8e HBA 430-16e HBA
PCIe LP PCIe LP
SAS3408 SAS3416
PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
12 Gb SAS 12 Gb SAS
8 16
SFF-8644 x4 SFF-8644 x4
2 4
SAS, SATA SAS, SATA
HDD, SSD, SED* HDD, SSD, SED*
Yes Yes
2048 4096
None None
Yes Yes
None None
None None
No No
No No
No No
No No
No No
No No
No No
No No
No No
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