MegaRAID SAS 8408E 3Gb/s Eight-Port Internal SAS RAID Adapter As the first-to-market eight-port Serial Attached SCSI RAID solution, the MegaRAID SAS 8408E offers advanced fault tolerant features for SAS drives, SATA II drives, or any combination of the two. Using a high-performance Intel I/O processor for optimum RAID performance and a PCI Express host interface for increased bandwidth, the MegaRAID SAS 8408E delivers an intelligent and robust RAID solution. In addition, this adapter supports 256MB DDRII SDRAM for data caching and an intelligent transportable battery backup (iTBBU) that protects cached data for up to 72 hours in the event of a complete power failure. The transportable cache module can even be moved to a new MegaRAID adapter with complete data retention. Features Eight internal SAS/SATA ports Two x4 SFF 8484 connectors 3 Gb/s throughput per port full duplex RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50 Greater than 2TB array support Intel® IOP333 I/O Processor PCI Express 1.0a compliant 2.5 Gb/s per lane x8 lane width 256MB DDRII 400MHz SDRAM intelligent transportable battery backed DIMM module Advanced data integrity and recovery enhanced error handling and reporting FlexRAID®: Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) Online RAID Level Migration (RLM) Comprehensive management and configuration utilities Full SAS expander support (32 disk support) Benefits Industry proven MegaRAID protection Flexibility for both SAS and SATA II drives PCI Express host interface for increased bandwidth New, robust MegaRAID management suite