Chapter 3: About Your RAID Controller ● 18Standard RAID Controller Features● Support for SAS disk drives, SATA/SATA II disk drives, and SATA and SAS Solid StateDrives (SSDs)● Flash ROM for updates to controller firmware, BIOS, and the Adaptec RAIDConfiguration utility● Disk drive hot-swapping● Event logging and broadcasting including email and SNMP messages● Multiple options for creating and managing RAID arrays—A full software application(Adaptec Storage Manager), a BIOS-based utility (ACU), a command line utility(ARCCONF) (see Managing Your Storage Space on page 79)● Native command queuing (NCQ), which lets disk drives arrange commands into the mostefficient order for optimum performance● Support for disk drive enclosures with SES2 enclosure management hardware● Support for a battery backup module (see page 19)● Support for a zero maintenance cache protection module (see page 19)● Support for Adaptec maxCacheTM SSD caching (see page 109)Note: Adaptec maxCache is supported on Adaptec Series Q controllers only.● Power-management of disk drives in your storage space to reduce cooling and electricitycosts (see page 106)● Audible alarm● I/O statistics loggingArray-level FeaturesNote: Not all features are supported by all controllers. For more information, refer to the AdaptecStorage Manager User’s Guide or online Help.● Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, simple volumes, and spannedvolumes● Support for hybrid RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays comprised of hard drives and Solid StateDrives (SSDs)● Support for JBOD disks (appear as a physical disk drives to the operating system; notredundant)● Support for hot spares (global and dedicated)● Support for automatic failover, so arrays are automatically rebuilt when a failed drive isreplaced (applies to redundant arrays in SES2- or SAF-TE-enabled disk drive enclosures only)● Optimized disk utilization, which ensures that the full capacity of all disk drives can beused, even if the disk drives vary in size● Online capacity expansion, so you can increase the capacity of an array without recreating it● Support for array migration from one RAID level to another
