Supermicro Storage Controller (RAID) SAS 12Gb/s

Supermicro Low Profile 12Gb/s Eight-Port SAS Internal RAID Adapter
The Supermicro MegaRAID Low Profile AOM-S3108-H8 features 8 internal SAS connectors for high-performance storage connectivity. This RAID card is built on the Broadcom SAS IC technology and proven MegaRAID technology. It addresses the growing demand for increased data throughput and scalability requirement across the enterprise-class server platforms. With high performance RAID architecture, including hardware RAID 5 and 6, this new RAID controller card supports high capacity storage applications. It delivers cost effective storage solutions using SATA drives and maximum performance and reliability with SAS drives.
With the option of supercar/TFM unit, this provides cached data protection and allows system builders to protect cached data even during the most catastrophic system failures.
Use a Broadcom 3108 I/O processor for optimum RAID performance and a PCI Express host interface for increased bandwidth. This RAID adapter delivers an intelligent and robust RAID solution.

Key Features
Broadcom 3108 8-port PCI-E SAS-3 controller
Designed for Blade Systems
8-port (8 internal) 12Gb/s per port
Supports 16 physical Devices
Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
On board hardware IO Processor
2GB 1866MHz DDR3 on-card cache
Advanced array configuration and management utilities
Automatically negotiates PCI-E link widths
Power management support
Supports 1.5, 3.0, 6.0 and 12Gb/s SAS and SATA data
transfer rates
Port independent auto-negotiation
Supports SSP, SMP, STP and SATA protocols
Optional Supercap/TFM Unit for cached data protection
(BTR-TFM8G-LSICVM02; Installation kit: MCP-240-00127- 0N)
- Ambient operating temperature from 10 DegC - 55 DegC
OS Support : Windows XP, 2K3, 2K8, Vista, RedHat
Enterprise and SUSE Linux
Supports fastpath(Free) and cachecade
(AOC-CHCD-PRO2-ESW)