3 fault tolerance, Fault tolerance, Fault tolerance features – Avago Technologies MegaRAID SAS 8204ELP User Manual

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MegaRAID SAS RAID Controller Characteristics

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3.3.3

Fault Tolerance

Table 3.12

shows the fault tolerance features for the MegaRAID 1068-

based SAS RAID controllers.

Table 3.12

Fault Tolerance Features

Specification

MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP, MegaRAID SAS
8300XLP, MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP,
MegaRAID SAS 8304ELP, MegaRAID SAS
8408E, MegaRAID SAS 8480E, and
MegaRAID SAS 84016E RAID Controllers

Support for SMART

1

1.

The Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) detects
up to 70 percent of all predictable disk drive failures. In addition, SMART
monitors the internal performance of all motors, heads, and drive
electronics.

Yes

Optional battery backup for
cache memory

SAS 8304ELP RAID controller, SAS 8308ELP
RAID controller, SAS 8344ELP RAID
controller, and SAS 84016E RAID controller:

- LSIiBBU01 battery backup.
<3.6V/880mAH battery pack; up to 72
hours of data retention for 128 Mbytes

SAS 8408E and SAS 8480E RAID controllers:

- LSIiTBBU02 battery backup.
4.8V/880mAH battery pack; up to 72 hours
of data retention for 256 Mbytes

Drive failure detection

Automatic

Drive rebuild using hot spares

Automatic

Parity generation and checking

Yes

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