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MegaRAID Enterprise 1600 64-Bit LVD has four SCSI channels that support 160M and Wide

 

SCSI, with data transfer rates of up to 160 MB/s per SCSI channel. Each SCSI channel supports up

 

to 15 Wide devices and up to seven non-Wide devices.

Features

MegaRAID features include:

 

• remote configuration and array management through MegaRAID WebBIOS

 

• high performance I/O migration path while preserving existing PCI-SCSI software

 

• SCSI data transfers up to 160 MB/s

 

• synchronous operation on a wide LVD SCSI bus

 

• up to 15 LVD SCSI devices on the wide bus

 

• up to 128 MB of 3.3V SDRAM cache memory in one single-sided or double-sided DIMM socket

 

 

(Cache memory is used for read and write-back caching and for RAID 3 and RAID 5 parity generation.)

 

• NVRAM storage for RAID configuration data

 

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audible alarm

 

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DMA chaining support

 

•

separate DRAM bus

 

• support for differential or single-ended SCSI with active termination

 

• up to 12 MegaRAID Enterprise 1600 adapter cards per system

 

• support for up to 15 SCSI devices per channel

 

• support for RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, 30, and 50

 

• span depth of eight for RAID 1, 3 or 5 arrays

 

• support for scatter/gather and tagged command queuing

 

• ability to multithread up to 256 commands simultaneously

 

• support for multiple rebuilds and consistency checks with transparent user-definable priority setting

 

• support for variable stripe sizes for all logical drives

 

• automatically detection of failed drives

 

• automatic and transparent rebuild of hot spare drives

 

• hot swap of new drives without taking the system down

 

• optional battery backup for up to 72 hours of data retention

 

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server clustering support

 

• optional firmware provides multi-initiator support

 

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server failover

 

• software drivers for major operating systems

SMART Technology

The MegaRAID Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) detects up to 70% of all predictable drive failures. SMART monitors the internal performance of all motors, heads, and drive electronics. You can recover from drive failures through RAID remapping and online physical drive migration.

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