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Robust SAS/SATA RAID SolutionKeeping electronic data online and availableis essential to running a successful business.Making sure that data is protected – whileremaining instantly accessible – requires faster,smarter solutions. The MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP,a second generation SAS/SATA RAID productfrom LSI, addresses these demands in a cost-effective, yet powerful internal RAID solution forentry server and small office environments. TheMegaRAID SAS 8708ELP adapter features theLSI SAS1078 IC, a powerful I/O storage enginethat transparently performs all the data protection, data checking, and restoration tasks. Thelow profile PCI adapter offers eight internal3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) ports on twoSFF8087 mini multi-Lane connectors, 128MBDDR II write cache, and PCI Express host interface. Also, system builders can choose highperformance SAS disks or low cost, high capacity SATA drives – or a combination of both – forgreater system design flexibility. The 8708ELPoffers support for both SAS expanders as wellas SATA native command queuing (NCQ).RAID6, Advanced Data ProtectionSupport for all key RAID levels including RAID6 and 60. RAID 6 tolerates two simultaneousfailures, and thus the ability to manage unrecoverable media errors during rebuilds. This isparticularly useful when using lots of highcapacity, lower-cost SATA disk drives.Check consistency and Patrol Read, advancedbackground sentry services that find and fixbad media blocks on disk drives, offer criticalbusiness applications unparalleled data protection capabilities.PerformanceThe MegaRAID SAS 8708ELP is designed toexcel in both high I/O transaction and highbandwidth processing. With an integrated500MHz PowerPC and industry leading 667MHzwrite cache, the 8708ELP delivers impressiveperformance numbers – up to 900MB/s throughput – allowing steaming video or data backupapplications run faster than ever with 1MBstripe configurations.
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