About Your Raid Controller; Standard Raid Controller Features; Array-Level Features - Adaptec 5085 Installation And User Manual

Standard RAID Controller Features

Support for SAS disk drives, SATA/SATA II disk drives, SATA and SAS Solid State Drives
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(SSD), and Adaptec MaxIQ Solid State Drives
Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID
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Configuration utility
Disk drive hot-swapping
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Event logging and broadcasting including email and SNMP messages
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Multiple options for creating and managing RAID arrays—A full software application
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(Adaptec Storage Manager), a BIOS-based utility (ACU), a command line utility
(ARCCONF), and a DOS utility (see
Native command queuing (NCQ), which lets disk drives arrange commands into the most
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efficient order for optimum performance
Support for disk drive enclosures with SES2 enclosure management hardware
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Support for a battery backup module (see
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Support for a zero maintenance cache protection module (see
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Support for MaxIQ SSD cache performance kit (see
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Note:
SSD caching is supported on Adaptec Series 2 and Series 5 controllers only.
Power-management of disk drives in your storage space to reduce cooling and electricity
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costs (see
Audible alarm
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I/O statistics logging and automatic forwarding for remote analysis ("call home")
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Array-level Features

Note:
Not all features are supported by all controllers. For more information, refer to the Adaptec
Storage Manager User's Guide or online Help.
Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, simple volumes, and spanned
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volumes
Support for JBOD disks (appear as a physical disk drives to the operating system; not
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redundant)
Support for hot spares (global and dedicated)
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Support for automatic failover, so arrays are automatically rebuilt when a failed disk drive is
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replaced (applies to redundant arrays in SES2- or SAF-TE-enabled disk drive enclosures only)
Optimized disk utilization, which ensures that the full capacity of all disk drives can be
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used, even if the disk drives vary in size
Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of an array without recreating it
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Support for array migration from one RAID level to another
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Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller
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