- Supports SAS devices at speeds up to 300MB/second per port
- Supports the SATA II protocol over SAS transport
- Contains sixteen internal SAS ports
- Supports up to 122 physical devices
- Supports up to 64 logical drives
- Supports non-disk devices
- Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60
- Hardware exclusive OR (XOR) assistance
- Online capacity expansion
- Online RAID level migration
- Physical drive roaming
- RAID controller migration
- Fast virtual drive initialization
- Hot spare drive configuration, both private and global
- SAS / SATA drive hot plug
- Native command queuing
- Auto rebuild
- Support for S.M.A.R.T
- Variable data stripe size configured per virtual drive
- 256MB of ECC DDR2 SDRAM integrated on the controller
- Read and write cache policy
- SES2 intelligent enclosure support
- PCI hot plug support
- Background media test (patrol read)
- Background data integrity test
The Intel RAID Controller SRCSASPH16I supports both Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) disk drives. Supporting dual architectures allows solutions to be customized for performance, reliability, system expansion flexibility and hard drive capacity. The RAID Controller SRCSASPH16I provides flexibility and helps lower total cost of ownership with a standardized server and storage infrastructure.