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Specification |
SAS 6/iR Adapter |
SAS 6/iR Integrated |
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SAS technology
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Yes
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Yes
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Support for x4, x8, or x16 PCI Express Host Interface
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Yes
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Yes
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Form Factor
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Standard-Height, Half-Length PCI Adapter
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Standard-Height, Half-Length PCI on all systems except on blade servers (where the dimension do not follow industry standards) and some Precision workstations (where the controller has been integrated on the mother board)
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I/O controller (IOC)
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LSI SAS 1068e
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LSI SAS 1068e
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Core Speed: 255 MHz
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Core Speed: 255 MHz
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Operating voltage requirements
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+12V, +3.3V, +3.3Vaux
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+12V, +3.3V, +3.3Vaux
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Communication to the system
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PCI-E lanes
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System dependent
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Communication to end devices
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SAS Links
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SAS Links
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SAS Connectors
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2 x4 Internal
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2 x4 Internal connectors on all systems, with two exceptions: 4 x1 on Precision workstations with controller integrated on the motherboard, no SAS connector on the controller for the blades (I/O is routed though the PCI connector)
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Lead Free
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Yes
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Yes
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Supported operating systems
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Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 Family, Windows® XP, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Family, Windows Vista™, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Versions 4 and 5, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Version 10.
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Dell-compliant SAS and SATA compatibility
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Yes
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Yes
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Dell supported direct connected end devices
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Dell-compliant physical disks
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Dell-compliant physical disks
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SMART error support through management applications
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Yes
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Yes
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Backplane supported systems
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Yes
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Yes
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Hardware-based RAID
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RAID 0, RAID 1
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RAID 0, RAID 1
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Maximum number of virtual disks
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2
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2
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Storage management software
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OpenManage™ Storage Services, SAS RAID Storage Manager
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OpenManage Storage Services, SAS RAID Storage Manager
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NOTE: The management software that is supported depends on the specific platform.
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Support for internal tape drive
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No
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No
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Support for Global Hotspare
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Yes
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Yes
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Maximum number of Hotspares
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2
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