The SAS 5/E Adapter from Dell™ are non-RAID adapters that can
communicate to Dell compliant SAS and SATA II drives. The SAS 5/E Adapter is
intended to communicate to future direct attached storage array products such as
the MD3000 (Pitbull) via 2 x4 external connectors. It utilizes high performance
SAS 3 Gbps technology to connect to the hard drives, and the next generation of
host interface technology, PCI Express™ (PCI-E). In the SAS5E HBA
controller the LSI SAS 1068 is a 2 x 4 port SAS/SATA controller, with each of
the 8 PHYs capable of 3.0 and 1.5 Gbps SAS/SATA link rates. Each port on the
LSISAS1068 supports SAS and SATA devices using the SAS Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP),
Serial Management Protocol (SMP), Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP), and SATA. It
has a 1 MB flash memory that stores the firmware image, key configuration data
and, limited error logging information and it supports pre-failure notifications
sent by the hard drives SMART events. It is is RoHS and SAS 1.1 compliant, and
offers data transfer rate up to 300 MBps per link in each direction. This
product has been tested and validated on Dell Systems. It is supported by Dell
Technical Support when used with a Dell system.
