LSI MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 SAS SATA RAID  controller

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 Please note, the default mounting bracket is full-height. If you need a low-profile bracket installed instead, please include a note in your payment so we will change the bracket for you.

Overview

The four-port MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 provides high-performance data protection for internal SAS systems using up to 32 SAS or SATA hard drives. Leveraging the smallest standard PCI Express MD2 form factor, this adapter is a perfect fit for 1U and 2U servers and space-limited storage environments. Featuring the LSISAS1078 ROC, a x8 PCI Express host interface and 667MHz DDRII, the MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 is a high-performance RAID adapter with advanced data protection capabilities for low-cost server and nearline applications. 

Features

  • Eight internal SAS/SATA ports

  • Two Mini-SAS SFF-8087 x4 connectors

  • Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6” X 2.536”)

  • 128MB or 256MB DDRII Cache (667MHz)

Benefits

  • Proven MegaRAID protection for SATA and SAS drives using RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or 60

  • Battery backup and advanced error detection and correction capabilities deliver outstanding RAID availability

  • Common suite of management utilities for all MegaRAID SAS/SATA adapters

 

Release tures and Usability Data Protection and Availability Performance Green

 

3.1 240 Physical Device Support

 

 RAID6   RoHS6
3.2
  • 0S Enhancements: SLES 10
  • Extend maximum chained enclosures to 16
  • Support 3 Drive R6 in management utilities
  • Email event notification

 

 RAID 6 support for 84016E
  • NCQ Support
  • Increase maximum stripe size to 256K

 

  
3.3
  • Dynamic enclosure import
  • SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) over i2C physical interface
  • OS Enhancements: MS Vista, Solaris x86, Redhat 5.0, VMWare 3.01, Sco UnixWare, SCO Open Server 6.0, XEN support for SLES 10
  • Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) support
  • Support up to 16 MegaRAID adapters per system
  • Patrol Read Throttle
  • Enclosure affinity for hot spare
  • Integrated RAID support in MSM
  • Label a spanned RAID 0 logical drive ‘RAID 00’

 

 iTBBU2, miniDimm support Increase maximum stripe size to 512k and 1MB  
   3.4
  • Enhanced Foreign Configuration Import
  • Schedulable Check Consistency
  • OS Enhancements: XEN support for RHEL 5
  • Dual Boot Support in MegaCLI
  • WebBIOS option to enable/disable disk drive failure history
  • MegaCLI support for EM64T environments

 
  • Enhanced Bad Block Management
  • New iBBU support

 

    
3.5
  • Extensions to RAID 1
  • Revertible Hot Spare
  • Console Redirect
  • Microsoft VDS Provider Support

 

 Single Controller Multi-pathing Load Balancing
  • LSISAS 1078 low
  • power ROC

 

3.6
  • VMware ESXi Virtualization Support
  • UEFI 2.0 support for new Intel Platforms
  • OS Enhancements: Solaris X86, FreeBSD support
  • SAS Tape drive support

 

 SSD Guard™ SSD Support Dimmer Switch™