Product Guide – NEC Express5800/120Rd-1
October 2003
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High-performance Ultra 320 Disk Drives and Flexible Storage Configurations
NEC Express5800/120Rd-1 includes a 3.5-inch diskette drive,
a CD-ROM drive a nd three hot-swa p SCSI hard disk drive
bays. The hot-swap Ultra 320 hard disk drive bays support
up to three 1.0-inch SCSI hard disk drives(439.5GB MAX)
that can be swapped in or out of the s ys tem withou t p oweri ng
it down, if RAID functionalit y is configured in the system.
Integrated Ultra 320 I/O Controllers
NEC Express5800/120Rd-1 system board features an integrated dual-channel SCSI
controller providing Ultra 320 SCSI interface for the support of Ultra 320 hard disk
drives.
The system board also includes a single channel EIDE controller providing support for
the internally mounted CD-ROM.
Multiple RAID Options
NEC Express5800/120Rd-1 comes with a complete range of optional high-performance
Ultra 320 RAID boards. These boards give top levels of performance, maximum
reliability and fault t olerance when running demanding server app lic a tions.
The 64bit RAID controller features 2x Ultra 320 SCSI channels, Intel GC80303
processor and 128MB of cache with battery backup unit.
The 64bit RAID controller features 1x Ultra 320 SCSI channel, Intel GC80302
processor and 64MB of cache without battery backup unit. It is possible to add optional
battery backup unit.