IBM MegaRAID 8480 manual Storage Adapter Specifications

The MegaRAID 8480 RAID controller and the LSIiTBBU02 are CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1, UL 60950-1 First Edition listed Accessory, UL file number E257743.

3.3.1Storage Adapter Specifications

Table 3.3 lists the specifications for the MegaRAID 8480 RAID controller.

Table 3.3	Storage Adapter Specifications
Specification		MegaRAID 8480 RAID Controller
Processor		Intel IOP333 I/O processor @ 500 MHz
(PCI Express Host
Controller to PCI
Secondary I/O
Controller)
Operating Voltage		+3.3 V, +12 V
Card Size		8480 RAID Controller: Standard height, half-length PCI
		Express adapter card size (4.376" x 6.6")
Array Interface		PCI Express Rev 1.0a
to Host
Type of Drives		Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA II (SATA II)
Supported
PCI Express Bus		• Up to 2.5 Gbits/s per lane
Data Transfer Rate		• x8 lane width (with support for downshifting for
		motherboards with x1 and x4 connections)
		• Up to 2 Gbytes/s per direction for SAS x8 cards
		(4 Gbytes/s total)
Serial Port		3-pin RS232-compatible connector (for manufacturing
		use only)
SAS Controller(s)		One LSISAS1068 Single SAS controller
SAS Bus Speed		3 Gbits/s
SAS Ports		Two SAS connectors with four SAS ports each
Cache Configuration		8480 RAID controller: Integrated 256 Mbyte Double Data
		Rate II 400 MHz SDRAM intelligent transportable battery-
		backed DIMM module
Size of Flash ROM		4 Mbytes
for Firmware
Nonvolatile Random		32 Kbytes for storing RAID configuration
Access Memory
(NVRAM)

Technical Specifications 3-5

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