Array Performance Features
Host data transfer rate
Drive data transfer rate
Maximum scatter/gather
Maximum size of I/O requests
Maximum queue tags per
drive
Stripe sizes
Maximum concurrent
commands
Support for multiple initiators
Performance
Flexibility
Background services
Cache options
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Table 8. Array Performance Features
Specification
®
Intel
RAID Controller RS25NB008
Upto 5.0 Gigabit/sec per PCI Express* lane
Upto 6.0 Gigabit/sec per PHY
80 elements
6.4 Mbytes in 64 Kbyte stripes
As many as the drive can accept
8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, or 1024 KB
255
Yes
Native command queuing
•
Drive migration
•
RAID level migration
•
Drive Roaming
•
Online Capacity Expansion - without reboot
•
Rebuild
•
Consistency Check
•
Migration
•
OCE
•
Patrol Read
•
Write-back or Write-through
•
Read Ahead
•
Adaptive Read Ahead
•
Non Read Ahead
•
Cache I/O or Direct I/O
•
Disk Cache
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