Lenovo x3550 M5 Product Manual page 37

Description
12 Gbps SAS HBAs - PCIe
N2225 SAS/SATA HBA
* One FoD upgrade for the M5225 activates the feature on all M5200 series controllers (M5210, M5225) installed in a server.
Note: SAS RAID controllers and HBAs for external storage are supported in low profile and full-high PCIe x8
and x16 slots supplied by the riser cards 1 and 2.
The following table summarizes features of supported HBAs.
Table 29. SAS RAID controller and HBA features and specifications summary (PN = Part number)
Feature
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
RAID levels
JBOD mode
Cache
Cache protection
Performance Accelerator (FastPath)
SSD Caching (CacheCade Pro 2.0)
For more information about the ServeRAID M5225-2GB, see the Lenovo Press Product Guide:
http://lenovopress.com/tips1258
For more information about SAS HBAs, see the list of Product Guides in the Host bus adapters category:
https://lenovopress.com/servers/options/hba
Fibre Channel host bus adapters
Lenovo System x3550 M5 (Machine Type 8869)
Part
number
00AE912
M5225-2GB
00AE938
Low profile
LSI SAS3108
PCIe 3.0 x8
12 Gbps SAS
8
2x Mini-SAS HD (SFF-8644)
SAS, SATA
HDD, SED, SSD
240
0/1/10/5/50;
Optional 6/60 (PN 47C8706)
No
2 GB (included)
Flash (included)
Optional (PN 47C8710)
Optional (PN 47C8712)
Feature Maximum I/O slots
code supported supported
A5M0 3 1, 2, 3
N2225
00AE912
Low profile
LSI SAS3008
PCIe 3.0 x8
12 Gbps SAS
8
2x Mini-SAS HD (SFF-8644)
SAS, SATA
HDD, SSD
1024
None
Yes
None
None
None
None
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