LSI 9265-8i 6Gbps MegaRAID Card Review
LSI 9265-8i 6Gbps MegaRAID Card Review
INTRODUCTION
- Ability to achieve 465,000 IOPS with a single controller
- 4x IOPS performance advantage over the closest competitor
- 3x greater IOPS than LSI’s 1st generation 6Gb/s controllers
- 10x greater IOPS than today’s 3Gb/s controllers
- 67% improvement in RAID 5 & 6 sequential writes (up to 2600 MB/s)
Features
- Eight internal SATA+SAS ports
- Two mini-SAS SFF-8087 x4 connectors
- 6Gb/s throughput per port LSISAS2208
- Dual Core ROC
- 800MHz PowerPC® MD2 - Low profile (6.6? X 2.536?)
- x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
- 1GB DDRIII cache (1333MHz)
- Optional battery backup unit (LSIiBBU09 remote mount)
- Connect up to 128 SATA and/or SAS devices
- RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6
- RAID spans 10, 50 and 60
- Auto-resume on rebuild
- Auto-resume on reconstruction
- Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
- Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
- SSD support with SSD Guard™
- Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot spare support
- Automatic rebuild
- Enclosure affinity
- Emergency SATA hot spare for SAS arrays - Single controller multipathing (failover) I/O load balancing
- Comprehensive RAID management suite
