Intel® RAID Controller RS2WG160 Hardware User’s Guide 23
Array Performance Features
Table 8. Array Performance Features
Cabling • Small, thin cables that do not restrict
airflow
• Shared connectors for multiple drives
Redundant configuration 32 KB NVRAM and config-on-disk (COD)
Enclosure management • SGPIO
• In-band and out-of-band SES
Enclosure support Assumes one SEP per enclosure
Specification Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2WG160
Specification Intel
®
RAID Controller RS2WG160
Host data transfer rate Upto 5.0 Gigabit/sec per PCI Express* lane
Drive data transfer rate Upto 6.0 Gigabit/sec per PHY
Maximum scatter/gather 80 elements
Maximum size of I/O requests 6.4 Mbytes in 64 Kbyte stripes
Maximum queue tags per
dr
ive
As many as the drive can accept
Stripe sizes 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, or 1024 KB
Maximum concurrent
co
mmands
255
Support for multiple initiators Ye s
Performance Native command queuing
Flexibility
• Drive migration
• RAID level migration
• Drive Roaming
• Online Capacity Expansion - without reboot
Background services
• Rebuild
• Consistency Check
• Migration
• OCE
• Patrol Read