Supermicro AOC-USAS-S8IR 8 Port SAS RAID Controller interface cards/adapter

Supermicro AOC-USAS-S8IR 8 Port SAS RAID Controller, 256MB DDR2 - PCI Express - Up to 300MBps per Port The Supermicro UIO AOC-USAS-S8i and AOC-USAS-S8iR feature 8 internal SAS ports for Power Efficiency, Performance, Flexibility, and Data Protection. With an integrated power-efficient, high-performance Intel IOP348 I/O Processor, our AOC-USAS-S8i and AOC-USAS-S8iR RAID cards are storage system-on-a-card that deliver enterprise class SAS and IOP RAID with significant flexibility and interoperability.

These UIO RAID cards address the growing demand for increased data throughput and scalability requirement across the mid-range to enterprise-class server platforms. With the on board iButton, the AOC-USAS-S8iR supports RAID 5 plus all the RAID levels that the AOC-USAS-S8i supports.

Features

- PCI-E SAS controller with Intel IOP348 processor
- 8-port (internal) 3Gb/s per port
- Supports RAID 0, 1, 10
- Supports RAID 5 with iButton
- On board hardware IO Processor
- 256MB 533MHz DDR2 on-card cache
- 128MB 533MHz DDR2 on-card cache
- Automatically negotiates PCI-E link widths
- Power management support
- Supports 1.5 and 3.0 Gb/s SAS and SATA data transfer rates
- Port independent auto-negotiation
- Supports SSP, SMP, STP and SATA protocols
- Optional Battery Backup Unit for cached data protection (BTR-0013)
- OS Support : Windows 2000/XP/2003, RedHat Enterprise and SUSE Linux