- Small, thin cabling with serial point-to-point 6.0 Gbps data transfer rates
- Support for non-disk devices and mixed capacity drives
- Allows for staggered spin-up, hot-plug, and lower power consumption
- User specified rebuild rate
- SGPIO enclosure management support
- Fault indicators per drive
- Drive coercion (auto-resizing to match existing disks)
- Auto-detection of failed drives with transparent rebuild
- Auto-resume of initialization or rebuild on reboot
- Smart technology predicts failures of drives and electronic components
- Patrol read checks drives and maps bad sectors
- Commands are retried at least four times
- Firmware provides best effort to recognize an error and recover if possible
- Failures are logged from controller and drive firmware, and SMART monitor
- Scalable interface that supports up to 128 physical devices through expanders
- Supports SSP to enable communication with other SAS devices
- Supports SMP to communicate topology management information
- Allows addressing of multiple SATA targets through an expander if using SATA 2.0-compliant hard disk drives
- Allows multiple initiators to address a single target (in a fail-over configuration) through an expander
The Intel Integrated RAID Module RMS25PB040 is the high-performance intelligent PCI Express 3.0 compliant SAS/SATA RAID controller that offers reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management. This is an ideal RAID solution that meets the internal storage needs of workgroup, department, or enterprise systems to use with cost-effective SATA or high performance SAS media.