IBM ServeRAID-MR10i SAS/SATA Controller

The ServeRAID-MR10i SAS/SATA Controller is a low-cost PCIe RAID controller for Internal System RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60. This full height, half length adapter uses an LSI 1078 controller with an x8 PCI Express host interface and eight internal SAS/SATA II 3 Gb/s ports. MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM), included with ServeRAID-MR10i, is a robust RAID management, configuration, and reporting application.

The ServeRAID MR10i has the following specifications:

• Full height (3U), half length card
• Two internal x4 SFF-8087 connectors
• PCI Express x8 host interface
• SAS Controller: LSI 1078e
• 3 Gbps per port data transfer rate
• Supports SAS 3 Gbps and SATA 2
• 256 MB cache
• Optional battery backup; two options: NiMH (now withdrawn from marketing) or Li-Ion
• Maximum stripe size: 1024 KB
• RAID levels : RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60

Note: Not all servers that support this controller also support the battery. See ServerProven for details.