MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e
  • Low-profile 8 external port 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID card with x8 PCIe 2.0 host interface and support for LSI’s FastPath and CacheCade advanced software features
  • Highly scalable, with excellent IOPS and bandwidth performance when connected to approved external JBOD enclosures
  • Ideal for configuring external enclosures to drive high capacity cloud, security and HPC applications

Features

  • Eight external SATA+SAS ports
  • Two mini-SAS SFF-8088 x4 connectors
  • Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6” X 2.536”)
  • 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)

Benefits

  • Superior performance
  • PCI Express 2.0 provides faster signaling for high-bandwidth applications
  • Support for 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA and SAS devices
  • Ideal for external subsystems using large numbers of SATA or SAS drives
  • Support for LSI Advanced Software Options including MegaRAID FastPath, CacheCade™, SafeStore™, and Recovery software
  • Low-profile MD2 form factor for space-limited 1U and 2U environments.
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LSI offers various internal cable options to make integration into your current system infrastructure as easy as possible. LSI also offers cache protection options for RAID controllers that protect against data loss in the event of a server or power failure by providing emergency power to the cache memory.