Lenovo System x ServeRAID M5210 SAS/SATA, 46C9110

Technical specifications

The ServeRAID M5210 and M5210e SAS/SATA controllers have the following specifications:

LSI SAS3108 12 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC) controller.

PCI low profile, half-length - MD2 form factor (M5210) or onboard chip (M5210e).

Eight internal 12 Gbps SAS/SATA ports (support for 12, 6, or 3 Gbps SAS speeds and 6 or 3 Gbps SATA speeds). Up to 12 Gbps throughput per port.

Two internal x4 HD Mini-SAS connectors (SFF-8643).

PCI Express 3.0 x8 host interface.

Support for RAID 0, 1, and 10 standard; support for RAID 5, 50, 6, and 60 with optional upgrades.

Optional onboard data cache (DDR3 running at 1866 MHz) with the choice of the following backup:

1 GB (no battery backup)

1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB with flash backup

Support for SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs.

Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs. Mixing different types of drives in the same array is not supported.

Connections to up to 32 internal drives, depending on the Server model.

Optional support for self-encrypting drives (SEDs) with MegaRAID SafeStore.

Optional support for SSD performance acceleration with MegaRAID FastPath and SSD caching with MegaRAID CacheCade.

Support for up to 64 virtual disks, up to 128 arrays, up to 16 virtual disks per array, and up to 32 physical drives per array.

Support for logical drive sizes greater than 2 TB.

Support for Integrated MegaRAID (iMR) mode (no cache memory upgrades installed) or MegaRAID (MR) mode (requires 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB cache memory upgrade).

iMR mode supports (no cache memory upgrades installed) the following features:

·         RAID 0, 1, and 10, and, optionally, 5 and 50

·         Fixed stripe unit size of 64 KB

·         Self-encrypting drives with optional Zero Cache/RAID 5 upgrade

·         Both RAID and JBOD (pass-thru mode with system drives) configurations

-       Up to 16 drives are supported in a RAID configuration.

-       Up to 63 drives are supported in a JBOD configuration. (JBOD drives can be used as bootable drives.)

MR mode supports (1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB cache memory upgrade required):

·         RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50 and, optionally, 6 and 60 (Non-RAID is not supported.)

·         Configurable stripe unit size from 64 KB up to 1 MB

·         Self-encrypting drives

·         Optional SSD performance features (FastPath and CacheCade)

Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (CoD).

S.M.A.R.T. support.

MegaRAID Storage Manager management software.