Lenovo ServeRAID M5110 Product Manual page 6

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)
Eight internal 6 Gbps SAS/SATA ports
Two internal Mini-SAS connectors (SFF-8087)
6 Gbps throughput per port
800 MHz dual-core IBM PowerPC® processor with LSI SAS2208 6 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC)
controller
PCI Express 3.0 x8 host interface
Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 10 standard; support for RAID 5, 50 and 6, 60 with optional upgrades
Optional onboard data cache (DDR3 running at 1333 MHz) with the choice of:
512 MB with optional battery backup
512 MB, 1 GB, or 2 GB with flash backup (MegaRAID flash cache protection technology)
Support for SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs
Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs; mixing different types of drives in the same
array (drive group) not recommended
Connections to up to 32 internal drives, depending on the server model
Optional support for self-encrypting drives (SEDs) with MegaRAID SafeStore
Optional support for SSD performance acceleration with MegaRAID FastPath and SSD caching with
MegaRAID CacheCade
Support for up to 64 virtual drives, up to 128 drive groups, up to 16 virtual drives per one drive
group, and up to 32 physical drives per one drive group
Support for logical unit number (LUN) sizes up to 64 TB
Support for Integrated MegaRAID (iMR) mode (no cache memory upgrades installed) or MegaRAID
(MR) mode (requires 512 MB, 1 GB, or 2 GB cache memory upgrade)
iMR mode (no cache memory upgrades installed) supports:
RAID 0, 1, and 10, and, optionally, 5 and 50
Fixed stripe unit size of 64 KB
Self-encrypting drives with optional Zero Cache/RAID 5 FoD upgrade
Both RAID and JBOD (pass-thru mode with system drives) configurations
MR mode (512 MB, 1 GB, or 2 GB cache memory upgrade required) supports:
RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50 and, optionally, 6 and 60 (Non-RAID is not supported.)
Configurable stripe unit size from 64 KB up to 1 MB
Self-encrypting drives
Optional SSD performance features (FastPath and CacheCade)
Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (COD)
S.M.A.R.T. support
MegaRAID Storage Manager management software
Feature upgrade matrix
ServeRAID M5110 and M5110e SAS/SATA Controllers (withdrawn product)
Up to 16 drives are supported in a RAID configuration.
Up to 63 drives are supported in a JBOD configuration. (JBOD drives can be
used as bootable drives.)
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