Technical Product Specification

Introduction Intel® RAID Controller RS2BL040 Technical Product Specification
Revision 1.0
Intel order number E64392-001
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 Sun Solaris* 10 32-bit
 Sun Solaris* 10 64-bit Edition
1.3 Features List
The Intel
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RAID Controller RS2BL040 offers the following features:
 Supports SAS/SATA devices at speeds up to 6 Gb/s per port
 Supports the SATA II protocol over SAS transport
 Contains four internal SAS/SATA ports
 Supports up to 16 SAS/SATA II devices through expanders
 Supports up to 64 virtual disks
 Supports up to 16 arrays
 Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
 Hardware exclusive OR (XOR) assistance
 Online capacity expansion
 Online RAID level migration
 Drive roaming
 Drive migration
 Fast virtual drive initialization
 Hot-spare drive configuration, both private and global
 SATA drive hot-plug
 Staggered spin-up
 Native command queuing
 Support for SMART
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 Auto rebuild with user-specified rebuild rate
 Variable data stripe size configured per virtual drive
 512 MB of ECC DDR2 667-MHz SDRAM integrated on the controller
 Read and write cache policy
 SES2 intelligent enclosure support
 PCI hot-plug support
 Background media scan (patrol read)
 Background data integrity test
 More than 200 Qtags per array
 Load balancing
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The Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) detects up to 70 percent of all predictable disk
drive failures. In addition, SMART monitors the internal performance of all motors, heads, and drive electronics.