- Support for non-disk devices and mixed capacity drives
- Support for intelligent XOR RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
- Dedicated or global hot spare with auto rebuild if an array drive fails
- Upgradeable Flash ROM interface
- Allows for staggered spin-up, hot-plug, and lower power consumption
- 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
- Multiple cache options allow configuration-specific performance optimization
The Intel Integrated RAID Module RMT3CB080 is a high performance intelligent PCI Express 3.0 compliant SATA III 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 media.
As second generation PCI Express storage controller, the Intel Integrated RAID Module RMT3CB080 addresses the growing demand for increased data throughput and scalability requirements across entry level, midrange, and enterprise server platforms.