LSI 9265-8i 6Gbps MegaRAID Card Review

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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