MegaRAIDSAS 9240-8i

SolutionProvided

Low-cost, green SATA+SAS RAID solution for high-density servers and workstations with the flexibility to use both SATA and SAS hard drives and solid state drives

Connectors

Internal

Two X4 Mini-SAS SFF8087 (horizontal) 

Max Number of Physical Devices

Non-RAID: 64

RAID 0: 16 per volume

RAID 1: 2 per volume plus hotspare

RAID 10: 16 per volume

HostBus Type

8-lane, 5 GT/s PCI Express 2.0 Compliant 

Data Transfer Rates

Up to 6Gb/s per port

SAS Controller

LSISAS2008

Key RAID Data Protection Features

• RAID levels 0, 1, 10 and JBOD mode

• Selectable logical drive as boot drive

• Consistency Check

• Fast initialization for quick array setup

• Native Command Queuing

• Staggered spin up for SATA drives

• Hot plug support

• Global hot spare support

• Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)

• Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)

• Single controller Multipathing (failover)

• Load balancing

• SafeStore Encryption Services

– Instant Secure Erase

• SSD support with SSD Guard

• Automatic rebuild of hot spare drives

• Auto resume during array rebuild

• Fault LED support through SGPIO

• >2TB logical drive support

• Soft bad block management

• Error recovery support

• DDF compliant Configuration on Disk

• S.M.A.R.T. support

• Patrol read for media scanning and repairing

• Enclosure management

– SES (inband)

– SGPIO (sideband)

RAID Management

MegaRAIDManagement Suite

- MegaRAID Storage Manager™

- MegaCLI (command-line interface)

- WebBIOS 

Environments

Operating

0°Cto 70°C

5 to 90% Non-condensing

Storage

-45°Cto 105°C

5 to 90% Non-condensing 

PCI Card Type

3.3V Add-in Card 

PCI Power

13.5W 

OS Support

Microsoft® Windows®, Linux® (SuSE®, Red Hat®), Solaris®, Vmware®. Seewww.lsi.com/support fordetails on versions.