Intel® Server Board S1200SP Family Technical Product Specification
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The Intel
®
C230 series also supports several optional sections of the Serial ATA II: Extensions to Serial ATA
1.0 Specification, Revision 1.0 (AHCI support is required for some elements).
• One M.2 SATA SSD 2242 Module with a separate SATA cable to any of the on-board SATA Connector
• Two 5-pin SATA SGPIO connectors, one to cover drive 0-3 with SDATAOUT0, the other to cover drive 4-7
with SDATAOUT1
• SATADOM with native power from SATA connector directly on port 4 (cable-less)
• AHCI
The Intel
®
C230 series chipset provides hardware support for Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), a
standardized programming interface for SATA host controllers. Platforms supporting AHCI may take
advantage of performance features such as no master/slave designation for SATA devices—each device is
treated as a master—and hardware assisted native command queuing. AHCI also provides usability
enhancements such as Hot-Plug. AHCI requires appropriate software support (for example, an AHCI driver)
and for some features, hardware support in the SATA device or additional platform hardware.
The server board includes support for two embedded software RAID options:
• Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 (ESRT2) based on LSI* MegaRAID SW RAID technology
• Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology (RSTe)
Using the <F2> BIOS Setup Utility, accessed during system POST, options are available to enable/disable SW
RAID, and select which embedded software RAID option to use.
3.4.3.1 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise
The Intel
®
C230 series chipset provides support for Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology enterprise, providing both
AHCI (see above for details on AHCI) and integrated RAID functionality. The industry-leading RAID capability
provides high-performance RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 functionality on up to 8 SATA ports of the Intel
®
C230 series
chipset. RSTe RAID support is provided to allow multiple RAID levels to be combined on a single set of hard
drives, such as RAID 0 and RAID 1 on two disks. Other RAID features include hot-spare support, SMART alerting,
and RAID 0 auto replace. Software components include an Option ROM for pre-boot configuration and boot
functionality, a Microsoft Windows* compatible driver, and a user interface for configuration and management
of the RAID capability of the Intel
®
C230 series chipset.
3.4.3.2 Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 (ESRT2)
Features of the embedded software RAID option Intel
®
Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 (ESRT2) include
the following:
• Based on LSI* MegaRAID Software Stack
• Software RAID with system providing memory and CPU utilization
• Supported RAID Levels – 0, 1, 10
• RAID 5 support provides with upgrade key of RKSATA4R5. RAID 5 under legacy BIOS mode is not
supported.
• Open Source Compliance = Binary Driver (includes Partial Source files) or Open Source using MDRAID layer
in Linux*
• OS Support = Microsoft Windows 2012*, Microsoft Windows 2008*, RHEL*, SLES, and other Linux* variants
using partial source builds
• Utilities = Microsoft Windows* GUI and CLI, Linux* GUI and CLI, DOS CLI, and EFI CLI
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