LSI MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 SAS SATA RAID controller
Used. Working System Pull.
Guaranteed Against DOA.
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
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Eight internal SAS/SATA ports
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Two Mini-SAS SFF-8087 x4 connectors
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Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6” X 2.536”)
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128MB or 256MB DDRII Cache (667MHz)
Benefits
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Proven MegaRAID protection for SATA and SAS drives using RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or 60
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Battery backup and advanced error detection and correction capabilities deliver outstanding RAID availability
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Common suite of management utilities for all MegaRAID SAS/SATA adapters
Release |
tures and Usability |
Data Protection and Availability |
Performance |
Green
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3.1 |
240 Physical Device Support
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RAID6 |
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RoHS6 |
3.2 |
- 0S Enhancements: SLES 10
- Extend maximum chained enclosures to 16
- Support 3 Drive R6 in management utilities
- Email event notification
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RAID 6 support for 84016E |
- NCQ Support
- Increase maximum stripe size to 256K
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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’
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iTBBU2, miniDimm support |
Increase maximum stripe size to 512k and 1MB |
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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
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- Enhanced Bad Block Management
- New iBBU support
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3.5 |
- Extensions to RAID 1
- Revertible Hot Spare
- Console Redirect
- Microsoft VDS Provider Support
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Single Controller Multi-pathing |
Load Balancing |
- LSISAS 1078 low
- power ROC
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3.6 |
- VMware ESXi Virtualization Support
- UEFI 2.0 support for new Intel Platforms
- OS Enhancements: Solaris X86, FreeBSD support
- SAS Tape drive support
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SSD Guard™ |
SSD Support |
Dimmer Switch™ |
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