Gigabyte CRA4648 Broadcom SAS3108 H/W RAID Card (240-PD) 9CRA4648MR-00
Ensure your critical data is protected and available with GIGABYTE. Based on Broadcom’s reliable and trusted SAS 3108 / 3008 controllers, GIGABYTE’s RAID & SAS Adapter solutions can address a variety of different direct-attached storage (DAS) environments – SATA or SAS, hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid state drives (SSDs), server-based storage or external direct-attached JBODs and storage enclosures.
This RAID add-on card features 2GB of onboard DDR3 cache memory to support write-back RAID caching. RAID caching is an excellent and cost-effective way to improve I/O performance by writing data to a controller’s cache before it is written to disk. Write-back cache improves application performance by storing write data to high performance cache memory during periods of heavy use. Where there is a break in user requests, the data is written from the cache memory to the storage array.
To protect against the loss of data being temporarily stored in cache memory before it has been written to disk, this RAID card can be combined with a Broadcom CacheVault CVM02 Flash Cache Protection Module. CacheVault technology prevents data loss by powering critical components of the card long enough to automatically transfer the cached data to a NAND flash module. Once power returns, the data is restored to the cache and normal operation resumes.
During normal write-back operation when data is written to the RAID card’s onboard cache memory (DRAM), the I/O is acknowledged as “complete” to the application that issued the write, and later the write is flushed to disk. If power is lost while write-back cache is enabled, the writes in DRAM may be lost. Since the controller has already acknowledged the I/O as complete, the application is unaware of the data loss.
Older generations of RAID controllers used lithium-ion based battery backup units. Over the life of a controller, the battery needed to be replaced numerous times, as it is only good for about 1.5 years. Furthermore, shipping and disposing lithium-ion batteries require special considerations and fees. The Broadcom CacheVault Protection Modules feature a super capacitor instead of lithium-ION batteries for back-up power, which virtually eliminates maintenance costs (does not need replacement over the life of the controller card), lowers total cost of ownership, and is more environmentally friendly.
CRA4648 with optional CacheVault CVM02 Flash Cache Protection Module attached
Ports
2 x internal Mini-SAS HD SFF8643 connectors for up to 8 x SAS 12Gb/s ports
Up to 240 x physical devices supported via expander
Supports SAS / Enterprise SATA hard drives
Controller
Broadcom® SAS3108
RAID
Hardware RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60
2GB DDR3 cache memory
Compatible with Broadcom® CacheVault Flash Cache Protection Module PN: 25FCZ-CVM020-L1R
Interface
PCIe x8 slot (3.0 x8 bus)
Dimension
168 x 68.9 mm
Format
Half-length low profile card
Available with full-height or low-profile bracket
Ordering Information
9CRA4648NR-00
12 units per carton
Packaging dimensions: 305 x 285 x 250 mm
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| prędkość transferu | SAS 12Gb/s |
|---|---|
| porty wewnętrzne | 8 |
| prędkosć transferu | 12Gb/s |
| wspierany RAID | 0,1,5,6,10,50, JBOD |
| Gwarancja | 3 lata |
Konfiguracja
