- Eight external SATA+SAS ports
- Two mini-SAS SFF-8088 x4 connectors
- 6Gb/s throughput per port
- LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip (ROC)
- Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6"" X 2.536"")
- x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
- 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)
- Connect up to 240 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
- Single controller multipathing (failover)
- I/O load balancing
Today's external enclosure designs are based on architectures that support both SATA and SAS drives. The MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e, with eight external SATA+SAS ports, is ideal for configuring these external enclosures with your choice of high-performance SAS hard drives, high-capacity SATA hard drives or energy-efficient solid state drives (SSDs). With data transfer rates of up to 6Gb/s per port, the MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e bring users features and improved performance, while continuing to support all the features of the previous 3Gb/s SATA+SAS generation. This feature line controller employs RAID-on-Chip technology, complies with the PCI Express 2.0 specification and provides additional data security using LSI SafeStore encryption services.