Technical Product Specification

Peripheral and Hard Drive Subsystem Intel®

Server System SR2600UR TPS

62 Intel order number E45274-011 Revision 1.8

6.4.2.4.1 Intel

RAID Activation Key

The Intel

RAID Activation Key enables the full intelligent SAS Hardware RAID solution. The

activation key plugs directly into a connector (J1A10) on the midplane board. With no RAID

activation key installed, only SAS Software RAID levels 0, 1, and 10 are supported.

6.4.2.4.2 Intel

RAID Cache support

To further enable support for hardware RAID, the active midplane provides a 244-pin mini-

DIMM connector (J8C1), supporting a single registered ECC non-parity DDR2-400 MHz Mini-

DIMM to provide Intel

RAID cache. Supported mini-DIMM capacities range from 128 MB to

1 GB.

Note: For a list of Intel validated mini-DIMMs, use the Server Configurator Tool available at

http://serverconfigurator.intel.com/default.aspx.

6.4.2.4.3 Intel

RAID Smart Battery Backup Module

With an Intel

RAID Smart Battery Backup module installed, data loss is prevented when data

is still present in the RAID Cache Module and power is unexpectedly lost. Depending on the

cache module capacity used, the battery backup unit can provide 48 to 72 hours of battery

backup power to allow data stored in the RAID cache to be processed. A 2x10 connector (J9A2)

is used to attach the battery backup unit to the midplane. For details, see Table 30.

6.5 Hot-swap SAS/SATA Backplane

The SR2600 system supports its own multifunctional SAS/SATA backplane with the following

features:

 Vitesse VSC410 enclosure management controller

o External non-volatile Flash ROM

o Four I

C interfaces

o Compliance with SCSI Accessed Fault Tolerant Enclosures (SAF-TE)

specification

o Compliance with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)

 Five 3.5-inch compatible hot-swap hard drive connectors

 Designed to support an optional sixth hard drive

 Power for an optional tape drive or two additional 2.5-inch SAS/SATA hard drives

 Hard Drive Status and Fault LEDs for each hard drive connector

 Card edge connectors for most interconnects, including:

o Midplane

o Control Panel

o Slimline SATA Optical Drive

 Temperature Sensor

 FRU EEPROM

 One 2x4-pin Power Connector