Solution provided

Eight-port internal SATA+SAS solution supporting up to 32 SAS or SATA hard-disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs)

Physical dimensions

167.6mm (6.6in) x 64.4mm (2.5in) (MD2 low profile)

Connectors

Two internal mini-SAS SFF8088

Device support

Up to 32 (SAS, SATA)

Host bus type

8-lane, PCI Express 2.0 compliant

Data transfer rates

Up to 6Gb/s per port

SAS controller

LSISAS2208 dual-core PowerPC ROC

Cache size

1 GB

Key RAID data protection features 

RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6
RAID spans 10, 50, 60
Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
Auto resume after power loss during array rebuild or
reconstruction/RLM
Consistency check for background data integrity
SED drive support
Load balancing
Physical disk power management (Dimmer Switch™)
Fast initialization for quick array setup
Configurable stripe size up to 1MB
SSD support
Patrol read for media scanning and repairing
Up to 64 logical drive and 64TB LUN support
DDF compliant Configuration on Disk (COD)
S.M.A.R.T. support
Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot-spare
support: automatic rebuild, enclosure affinity, emergency SATA
hot spare for SAS arrays
Enclosure management: SES (inband), SGPIO (sideband)

RAID management 

CTRL-R
Dell OpenManage™ Storage Services
Additional management:
UEFI (HII)
CEM

Operating temperature

Maximum ambient temperature: 60°C

Operating voltage

Operating systems

Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 SP2
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.7
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6.1
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
Virtualization options:
VMware® ESX/ESXi 4.1
VMware® 5.0 U1