Hardware user guide

Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMS25KB0x0 and RMS25JB0x0 Hardware User’s Guide 3
The operating systems supported may not be supported by your server board. See the
Tested operating system list for your server board at
http://www.intel.com
.
To make sure the RAID module supports your operating system, see also the Tested
Hardware and Operating System List for the Intel
®
Integrated RAID Module
RMS25KB080, RMS25KB040, RMS25JB080 and RMS25JB040.
Usability
• The the Intel
®
Integrated RAID Module RMS25KB080 and RMS25KB040 ship
with both a standard and a low-profile bracket.
• Small, thin cabling with up to 6.0 Gb/s serial, point-to-point data transfer rates.
• Support for non-disk devices and mixed capacity drives.
• Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, and 10.
• Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails.
• Fixed RAID strip size of 64 KB.
• Advanced array configuration and management utilities that provide drive roaming.
• Allows for staggered spin-up, hot-plug, and lower power consumption.
Redundancy and Error Handling
• Sideband SGPIO Enclosure management support.
• Activity and fault indicators per drive.
• Auto-detection of failed drives with transparent rebuild.
• Commands are retried up to four times.
• SMART technology predicts failures of drives and electronic components for drives
in IR mode.
• Firmware provides best effort to recognize an error and recover from it if possible.
• Failures are logged from controller and drive firmware.
• Failures are logged in Intel
®
RAID Web Console 2, CIM, and LEDs.