Specifications

DS300f G2 Series User Manual
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features
controller moDule featureS
drive suPPort
• 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factor
• Hard disk drives (HDDs) and Solid State drives (SSDs)
• SAS, 6 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s
• SATA, 6 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s
• Supports any mix of SAS and SATA drives simultaneously in the same enclosure
For a list of supported drives, go to ASUS Storage support:
http://www.ASUS Storage.com/support/
SATA physical drives require a SAS-to-SATA adapter, available from ASUS Storage.
externAl i/o Ports Per controller
• ASUS DS300f G2: Two 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel ports compatible with 4 Gb/s and 2 Gb/s and four 1 Gb/s iSCSI
ports
• ASUS DS300f G2: Four 1 Gb/s iSCSI ports
• All models: One external SAS port with an SFF-8088 SAS connector, supports up to 4 cascading JBOD
expansion units (FCS), up to 6 cascading JBOD expansion units (SR1)
dAtA cAche
• 2 GB data cache per controller.
Aportionofthedatacacheissharedwiththecontrollerrmware
• Protected with hot-swappable battery backup unit (BBU)
oPeratIonal featureS
rAid level suPPort
• 0, 1, 1E, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, and 60
rAid striPe size suPPort
• 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K, and 1MB
hot sPAre drives
• Global
• Dedicated
• Revertible option
MAxiMuM luns suPPorted
• Total LUNs: 256
• Per Array: 32
AdvAnced storAge feAtures
• Perfect Rebuild
• Advanced Battery Flash Backup
• HDD Cache Backup (SR3)
• Online LUN Clone (SR1)
• Advanced Cache Mirroring over PCIe Gen2
• Simple, drag-and-drop LUN Masking and Mapping
• Asymmetric LUN Unit Access (ALUA)
• Volume Copy
• PerfectFlash - Non-Disruptive Software Update
• I/O performance & power monitoring tools
• Guaranteed Latency Technology (an advanced OEM feature)
• USB Service Log
Note
A maximum of 30 logical drives (LD) are supported.