Specifications*

Eight internal 6 Gbps SAS/SATA ports

Two Mini-SAS internal connectors (SFF-8087)

6 Gbps throughput per port

800 MHz PowerPC processor with LSI SAS2108 6 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC) controller

x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface

Onboard data cache (DDR2 running at 800 MHz):

ServeRAID M5015: 512 MB

ServeRAID M5014: 256 MB

Intelligent Li-Ion-based battery backup unit with up to 48 hours of data retention:

ServeRAID M5015: Standard in the option part number

ServeRAID M5014: Optional

Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 (RAID 6 and 60 support with the optional M5000 Advanced Feature Key)

Connects to up to 32 SAS or SATA drives

SAS and SATA drives are supported, but the mixing of SAS and SATA in the same RAID array is not supported

Supports up to 64 logical volumes

Supports LUN sizes up to 64 TB

Configurable stripe size up to 1 MB

Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (COD)

S.M.A.R.T. support