LSI MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP interface cards/adapter

MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP, SAS/SATA, PCI-E Low-Cost SAS/SATA RAID Solution\nThe four-port MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP, a second-generation SAS/SATA RAID product from LSI, eliminates the need to choose between cost and performance by supporting both high-value SATA drives and high-performance SAS drives. With this adapter, based on the same proven MegaRAID technology used by the world’s most powerful servers, users can rest assured that they are enjoying maximum protection for the critical data that drives their business. It features the LSISAS1078 IC, a powerful\nstorage I/O engine that transparently performs all the data protection, data checking and restoration tasks. Additionally, the low-profile MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP offers four internal SAS/SATA ports on one multi-lane connector (SFF8087), 128MB DDRII cache, and a PCI Express host interface.\n\nRAID 6 for Advanced Data Protection\nThe second-generation SAS/SATA RAID adapters from LSI support all key RAID levels including RAID 6 and 60. RAID 6 tolerates two simultaneous\nfailures, and thus the ability to manage unrecoverable media errors during rebuilds. This is particularly useful when using large quantities of high-capacity SATA disk drives.\n\nPerformance Advantage\nThe MegaRAID SAS 8704ELP is designed to excel in both high I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing. With an integrated 500MHz PowerPC core and industry-leading 667MHz write cache, the 8704ELP delivers impressive performance numbers: 900MB/s reads and 300MB/s writes. Furthermore, steaming video or data backup applications run faster than ever with 1MB stripe configurations.\n\nAdvanced RAID Management Utility\nThe MegaRAID Management Suite™ provides the essential software tools to efficiently manage MegaRAID products, whether deployed in an enterprise or small business. LSI offers a collection of applications and tools including a pre-boot setup utility as well a full spectrum of online RAID management utilities. This new suite of applications allow administrators to adjust SAS topology views from the system host, controller and disk enclosure down to the logical and physical drive level. Extending to enterprise deployments, the powerful tools easily scale to efficiently configure, monitor and manage RAID volumes locally or over the LAN network.