Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 730-8i 2GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter

• PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface, low profile card
• 12 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID controller
• 2GB cache with flash-based backup
  • MegaRAID flash cache protection with NAND flash memory
  • Powered by an externally mounted CacheVault Power Module supercapacitor
• Connectivity for up to 8 internal SAS or SATA drives
• Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs. Mixing SAS and SATA drives in the same array is not supported. Mixing of HDDs and SSDs in the same array is not supported.
• Support for intermixing of 12 Gbps and 6 Gbps drives.
• RAID levels supported: 730-8i 2GB Flash adapter: RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, and 60
• Support for JBOD (non-RAID) drive state
• Support for up to 64 virtual disks, up to 128 arrays, up to 16 virtual disks per array
• Support for logical drive sizes greater than 2 TB.
• Configurable stripe size from 64 KB up to 1 MB
• Supports 512e, 512n and 4K sector formatted drives
• Support for SafeStore for self-encrypting drives (SEDs) (2GB Flash adapter only)
• Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (CoD).
• S.M.A.R.T. support.
• Configuration through
  • XClarity Provisioning Manager UEFI interface
  • XClarity Controller web interface
  • XClarity Administrator Configuration Patterns
  • StorCLI command-line interface
  • LSI Storage Authority (LSA) GUI interface
  • UEFI Human Interface Infrastructure (HII)

Note: CacheCade and TRIM/UNMAP commands are not supported by these adapters