IBM x3690 X5 Product Manual

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IBM System x3690 X5 17The 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The 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The ServeRAID M5016 SAS/SATA Controller has the following specifications:Two Mini-SAS internal connectors (SFF-8087)Eight internal 6 Gbps SAS/SATA ports6 Gbps throughput per port800 MHz dual-core PowerPC® processorBased on the LSI SAS2208 6 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC) controllerPCI Express x8 Gen 2 host interface1 GB of onboard data cache (DDR3 running at 1333 MHz)CacheVault technology to protect data in cache in case of critical power or server failureSupports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60Connects to up to 128 SAS or SATA drivesIntermix of SAS and SATA drives are supported, but the mixing of SAS and SATA drives in the sameRAID array is not supportedSupports up to 64 logical volumesSupports LUN sizes up to 64 TBConfigurable stripe size up to 1 MBThe 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 list of IBM Redbooks® Product Guides in the RAID adapters category:http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/portals/systemx?Open&page=pg&cat=raid