Specifications
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Following are the specifications for the LSI 8308ELP 8-port (4i+4i) PCIe ×4 LP SAS RAID controller.
Specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.

Feature Specification
Internal Connectors Two SAS SFF8087 ×4
Device Support Up to 8 direct connect; up to 16 using expander
Data Transfer Rates Up to 3 Gb/s per port
Processor Intel® IoP333 I/O processor
Cache Memory 128 MB DDR SDRAM embedded
Physical Dimensions Extended length low profile (7.71 × 2.536-inch)
Host Bus Type PCI Express 1.1, 1.25 GHz
  • ×4 Link for 1GB/s peak simplified
  • 2 GB/s peak duplex
Battery Backup Unit Optional Remote Intelligent Battery Backup Unit (iBBU)
RAID and Fault Tolerant Features RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50
  • Online Capacity Expansion (oCE)
  • RAID Level Migration (RLM)
  • Variable stripe size support
  • Fast initialization for quick array setup
  • Patrol read
  • Automatic rebuild of hot spare drives
  • Enclosure management (SES and SGPIo)
  • 64 logical drive support
  • Auto resume on array reconstruction
  • Configuration on Disk (CoD)
  • S.M.A.R.T. support
Operating Temperature 50° C (40° C) with iBBU
Operating Voltage +3.3 V
Regulatory Certification CE, FCC, C-tic, UL, VCCI, BSMI and RRL
RAID Management
  • MegaRAID Management Suite
  • MegaRAID Storage Manager
  • MegaCLI (Command-Line Utility)
  • WebBIOS
  • SNMP support
  • Operating System Support
  • Microsoft® Windows® 2000
  • Windows Server 2003 32-bit and 64-bit
  • Windows XP
  • Red Hat® AS Linux® RHEL 3
  • SuSE Linux® SLES