1 Overview
| The MegaRAID® Express 500 PCI RAID controller is a high performance intelligent |
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| provides reliability, high performance, and |
| The MegaRAID Express 500 is part of the LSI Logic Intel |
| controller family. The MegaRAID Express 500 is an entry |
| controller solution. MegaRAID Express 500 offers a |
| RAID in a server. |
| The MegaRAID Express 500 has a 160M Ultra and Wide SCSI channel supporting data |
| transfer rates up to 160 megabytes per second (MB/s) per channel. The SCSI channel |
| supports up to fifteen |
| MegaRAID features and performance. |
Features | MegaRAID Express 500: |
| • provides a high performance I/O migration path while preserving existing |
| • performs SCSI data transfers up to 160 MB/s |
| • performs synchronous operation on a wide LVD SCSI bus |
| • allows up to 15 LVD SCSI devices on the wide bus |
| • includes an Intel® i960RM that performs RAID calculations and routing |
| • supports 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 MB of SDRAM cache memory in a DIMM socket used for read |
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SCSI Channel | The MegaRAID Express 500 upgrade card includes one Ultra3 SCSI channel. The |
| channel is powered by a |
NVRAM and Flash ROM A 32 KB x 8 NVRAM stores RAID system configuration information. The MegaRAID Express 500 firmware is stored in flash ROM for easy upgrade.
SCSI Connectors MegaRAID Express 500 has one ultra high density
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