IBM System x3690 X5 At-a-glance Manual

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IBM System x3690 X5 14The ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controller has the following specifications:Two Mini-SAS internal connectorsSupports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50Supports RAID 6 and 60 with the optional M5000 Advanced Feature KeyPerformance optimization for SSD drives with optional M5000 Series Performance Accelerator Key6 Gbps throughput per portPCI Express 2.0 x8 host interfaceBased on the LSI SAS2108 6 Gbps ROC controller256 MB of onboard cacheOptional Intelligent Li-Ion-based battery backup unit with the ServeRAID M5000 Series Battery KitFor more information, see the at-a-glance guideServeRAID M5015 and M5014 SAS/SATA Controllers forIBM System x, TIPS0738 at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0738.html?OpenThe ServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA Controller has the following specifications:Two Mini-SAS internal connectorsSupports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50Supports RAID 6 and 60 with the optional M5000 Advanced Feature KeyPerformance optimization for SSD drives with optional M5000 Series Performance Accelerator Key6 Gbps throughput per portPCI Express 2.0 x8 host interfaceBased on the LSI SAS2108 6 Gbps ROC controller512 MB of onboard cacheStandard Intelligent Li-Ion-based battery backup unit with up to 48 hours of data retentionFor more information, see the at-a-glance guideServeRAID M5015 and M5014 SAS/SATA Controllers forIBM System x, TIPS0738 at: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0738.html?OpenThe ServeRAID B5015 SSD Controller has the following specifications:Two Mini-SAS internal connectorsSupports RAID levels 1 and 56 Gbps throughput per SAS portPCI Express 2.0 x8 host interfaceBased on PMC-Sierra PM8013 maxSAS 6 Gb/s SAS RoC controllerPerformance optimized for SSDsStripe size of up to 1 MBFor more information, see the at-a-glance guideServeRAID B5015 SSD Controller, TIPS0763 at:http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0763.html?OpenThe ServeRAID Expansion Adapter (also known as the IBM x3690 X5 RAID Expansion Adapter or IBM4x4 Drive Backplane ServeRAID Expansion adapter) is a SAS expander that allows you to create RAIDarrays of up to 16 drives and across up to four backplanes. You can use only the 2.5-inch hot-swap drivebackplanes with this adapter. You can use the Expansion Adapter only with the following RAIDcontrollers:ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA adapterServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA adapterServeRAID M5015 SAS/SATA adapterThe Expansion Adapter must be installed in PCI Slot 1 and the ServeRAID adapter must be installed inPCI Slot 3.