Raid Controller Configurations - Intel SRCS16 - RAID Controller Hardware User's Manual

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In addition, the RAID Controller SRCS16 offers enclosure management through the same
protocols used for SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures (SAF-TE), using an I
interface to communicate with the storage enclosure processor (SEP). This feature allows you
to use RAID capabilities provided by the RAID Controller SRCS16 adapters in an enclosure
containing your hard drives.
1.3 Hardware
You can install the Intel
has 3.3V, 64-bit PCI slots.
The following subsections describe the hardware configuration and configuration-on-disk.
1.3.1

RAID Controller Configurations

Table 1-1 describes the features for the RAID Controller SRCS16. Figure 1.1 points out the
major components of the RAID controller. Refer to Table 3-1 and to Figure 3.1 for jumper
and connector options.
Table 1-1
Feature
Number of Ports
Serial ATA Bus Speed
Serial ATA Data Transfer Rate
Intelligent RAID Management
PCI Bus Width and Speed
PCI Data Transfer Rate
RAID Levels
SDRAM Support
Cache Function
Online Expansion
Hot Spare Pool
Hot Swap
Hardware Exclusive-OR
Enclosure Management Support
BIOS RAID Management Tools
Software RAID Management Tools
1. Theoretical transfer rate
Hardware
Up to 40 logical drives allowed per controller
Up to 32 physical drives allwoed per logical array
S.M.A.R.T. technology is supported
64MB cache memory size
User-configurable stripe size of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128KB
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RAID Controller SRCS16 in a computer with a motherboard that
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Intel RAID Controller SRCS16 Adapter Features
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Description
6, using 3 Silicon Image* SCL3112 controllers
150 MHz
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1.5 Gbits/s
Yes, using the Intel 80302 processor
64-bit, 66 MHz
528 Mbytes/s
0, 1, 5, 10, and 50
64 Mbytes ECC SDRAM
Write-back, Write-through, Adaptive Read Ahead, Non-Read
Ahead, Read Ahead, Cache I/O, Direct I/O
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebBIOS
Web Console
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