Adaptec 2268300R manual Standard RAID Controller Features, Array-level Features

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Standard RAID Controller Features

●Support for SAS disk drives, SATA/SATA II disk drives, and SATA and SAS Solid State Drives (SSDs)

●Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAID Configuration utility

●Disk drive hot-swapping

●Event logging and broadcasting including email and SNMP messages

●Multiple options for creating and managing RAID arrays—A full software application (Adaptec Storage Manager), a BIOS-based utility (ACU), a command line utility (ARCCONF) (see Managing Your Storage Space on page 79)

●Native command queuing (NCQ), which lets disk drives arrange commands into the most efficient order for optimum performance

●Support for disk drive enclosures with SES2 enclosure management hardware

●Support for a battery backup module (see page 19)

●Support for a zero maintenance cache protection module (see page 19)

●Support for Adaptec maxCacheTM SSD caching (see page 109)

Note: Adaptec maxCache is supported on Adaptec Series Q controllers only.

●Power-management of disk drives in your storage space to reduce cooling and electricity costs (see page 106)

●Audible alarm

●I/O statistics logging

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 volumes

●Support for hybrid RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays comprised of hard drives and Solid State Drives (SSDs)

●Support for JBOD disks (appear as a physical disk drives to the operating system; not redundant)

●Support for hot spares (global and dedicated)

●Support for automatic failover, so arrays are automatically rebuilt when a failed drive is 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 used, even if the disk drives vary in size

●Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of an array without recreating it

●Support for array migration from one RAID level to another