SAS9280-4I4E Datasheet, PDF (1/2 Pages) AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED – Four-Port External 6Gb/s PCI Express SATA+SAS RAID Controller

MegaRAID^® SAS 9280-4i4e
Four-Port Internal / Four-Port External 6Gb/s PCI Express
SATA+SAS RAID Controller
Product Brief
Key Features
■■ Four internal + Four external 6Gb/s
SATA+SAS ports
■■ One Mini-SAS internal connector
(SFF-8087)
■■ One Mini-SAS external connector
(SFF-8088)
■■ LSI SAS 2108 6Gb/s RAID-on-Chip
––800MHz PowerPC^®
■■ 512MB 800MHz DDRII cache memory
■■ Optional battery backup module
■■ RAID Levels 0, 1, 5 and 6
■■ RAID Spans 10, 50 and 60
Key Advantages
■■ Superior Performance
––Maximum Reads: 2,875MB/s
––Maximum Writes: 1,800MB/s
■■ PCI Express^® 2.0 provides faster
signaling for high bandwidth
applications
■■ Support for 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA and
SAS hard drives
■■ SafeStore^™ Encryption Services for
more secure data protection
Protect Business Critical Data with the Industry’s Most Trusted SATA+SAS
RAID Controllers
Next-Generation SATA+SAS RAID
MegaRAID SATA+SAS controllers provide a new level of reliability, availability, and performance to
businesses that are facing storage challenges driven by unprecedented data growth. The MegaRAID
SAS 9280-4i4e, with four internal and four external ports, supports both internal drive storage and
external JBOD expansion. Using the external SAS ports, multiple JBODs can be connected to a
server, providing a scalable and affordable solution for growing storage requirements.
6Gb/s SAS Performance Advantage
With data transfer rates of up to 6Gb/s per port, the MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e bring users new
features and improved performance, while continuing to support all the features of the previous
3Gb/s SATA+SAS generation. 6Gb/s SAS is designed for backward compatibility with 3Gb/s SAS
as well as with 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s SATA hard drives. Regardless of the drive speed, 6Gb/s MegaRAID
controllers will deliver significant performance improvements in both read and write applications as
compared to their 3Gb/s predecessors.
SafeStore Encryption Services
Avago is pleased to introduce SafeStore Encryption Services, which include Instant Secure Erase for
self-encrypting drives (SEDs). This technology represents a significant step forward in securing a
drive’s data from any unauthorized access or modification resulting from theft, loss, or repurposing
of drives. Instant secure provides instant data protection via cryptographic erase. Whether the
drive is 73GB or 1TB, this feature will delete the existing encryption key and regenerate a new data
encryption key in less than a second, enabling drives to be returned, retired, sold or reused securely.
Intuitive RAID Management Utility
The MegaRAID Management Suite^™ provides the essential software tools to efficiently manage
MegaRAID products, whether deployed in an enterprise or small business. Avago offers a collection
of applications and tools including a pre-boot setup utility and a full spectrum of online RAID
management utilities. This suite of applications allow administrators to adjust SAS topology views
from the system host, controller and disk enclosure down to the logical and physical drive level.
Extending to enterprise deployments, these tools scale to easily configure, monitor and manage
RAID volumes locally or over the LAN network.