Technical Details for Adaptec RAID 5445

Adaptec RAID 5445 ... flexibility for enterprise-class applications, including network attached storage, online transaction processing web, digital surveillance, and streaming applications.

The Adaptec RAID 5445 is equipped with industry-leading dual core RAID on Chip (ROC), the x8 PCI-Express connectivity, and 512MB of DDR2 cache to deliver over 250,000 IO per second and 1.2GB/s.

Four internal ports plus four external ports in this Unified Serial controller give you more flexibility to connect up to 256 SATA/SAS disk drives through SAS expanders in your choice of internal and external configurations. The Adaptec RAID 5445 features Adaptec RAID Code (ARC) with RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60, JBOD, as well as Copyback Hot Spare.

Adaptec Storage Manager provides one-view centralized management of all your Adaptec RAID controllers. The Adaptec RAID 5445 also integrates the PCIe connectivity, the broadest operating system support, including open source Linux drivers and proven compatibility.