SERIES 6E DATA SHEET
Adaptec SATA & SAS RAID (6405E, 6805E)
PMC-Sierra, Inc.
1380 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA
Tel: +1 (408) 239-8000
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Adaptec Unified Serial Controller Family
Why to buy? Entry-level 6Gb/s performance Unified Serial RAID controllers support both SATA and SAS devices and provide affordable, true hardware
RAID with on-board DRAM cache that outperforms software-based HBAs and SATA controllers.
Customer Needs High I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing; solutions that reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs
Hybrid RAID — Maximizes performance and reliability with arrays of Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Hard Disk Drives (HDDs).
— Controller automatically creates RAID 1 or RAID 10 arrays.
Intelligent Power
Management
Automated customer-configurable feature that reduces disk drive energy use by up to 70% without compromising application
performance. Two configurable modes supported:
Standby mode – low-power mode; spins disks at lower RPMs (must be supported by disk drive).
Power-off mode – Spin down drives when not in use.
RAID Features — Supports up to 4 (6405E) or 8 (6805E) SATA or SAS devices
— RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 1E and JBOD
— Hybrid RAID 1 & 10
— Quick initialization
— Online Capacity Expansion
— Copyback Hot Spare
— Dynamic caching algorithm
— Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
— Background initialization
— Hot-plug drive support
— RAID Level Migration
— Hot spares - global, dedicated, and pooled
— Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spares
— SES and SAF-TE enclosure management
— Configurable stripe size
— S.M.A.R.T. support
— Multiple arrays per disk drive
— Dynamic sector repair
— Staggered drive spin-up
— Bootable array support
— Optimized Disk Utilization
Management Utilities
Adaptec maxView Storage Manager
— Web based GUI Management Utility
— OS Support: Windows, Linux, Solaris VMware
— Remote conguration, monitoring & notication
— Remote rmware updates
— SMI-S Support
— SMTP
ARCCONF
— Command Line Interface
— SMI-S support for VMware
Adaptec BIOS Conguration Utility (CTRL+A)
— Legacy conguration utility
— Flashable BIOS support
Adaptec uEFI BIOS Conguration Utility
— HII based conguration utility
— Flashable BIOS support
Operating System Windows 7, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2, Windows Vista, VMware ESX Classic 4.x (vSphere), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Sun Solaris 10 x86, FreeBSD, Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux.
The latest drivers are available at www.adaptec.com/support.
Physical Dimensions
6405E: 2.535”H x 5.115”L
6805E: 2.535”H x 6.095”L
Operating Temperature 0°C to 55°C (with 200 LFM airflow)
Operating Voltage
6405E: 0.11A @ 3.3 VDC; 0.75A @ 12.0 VDC
6805E: 0.125A @ 3.3 VDC; 0.80A @ 12.0 VDC
Regulatory Certification CE, FCC, UL, C-tick, VCCI, KCC
Environmental Compliance RoHS, REACH
MTBF
6405E: 889,115 hours at 40°C
6805E: 860,953 hours at 40°C
Warranty 3 years
Adaptec RAID 6405E 6805E
Order Part Number 2271700-R (kit)
2270800-R (single)
2271800-R (kit)
2270900-R (single)
Form Factor
MD2 - Low Profile
(2.535”H x 5.115”L)
MD2 - Low Profile
(2.535”H x 6.095”L)
Ports 4 Internal 8 Internal
Connectors 1 SFF-8087 2 SFF-8087
Bus Interface 1-Lane PCIe Gen 2 4-Lane PCIe Gen 2
Processor PM8013 PM8013
Cache 128MB 128MB
Fanout Cable
(Kit only)
mSASx4 to 4xSATA
w/sideband (0.7M) x1
mSASx4 to 4xSATA
w/sideband (0.7M) x 2