DELL PERC5/E HBA Dual Channel SAS Controller

Original DELL SAS 5/E PCI-Express Controller

The SAS 5/E Adapter from Dell^™ are non-RAID adapters that can communicate to Dell compliant SAS and SATA II drives. The SAS 5/E Adapter is intended to communicate to future direct attached storage array products such as the MD3000 (Pitbull) via 2 x4 external connectors. It utilizes high performance SAS 3 Gbps technology to connect to the hard drives, and the next generation of host interface technology, PCI Express^™ (PCI-E). In the SAS5E HBA controller the LSI SAS 1068 is a 2 x 4 port SAS/SATA controller, with each of the 8 PHYs capable of 3.0 and 1.5 Gbps SAS/SATA link rates. Each port on the LSISAS1068 supports SAS and SATA devices using the SAS Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP), Serial Management Protocol (SMP), Serial Tunneling Protocol (STP), and SATA. It has a 1 MB flash memory that stores the firmware image, key configuration data and, limited error logging information and it supports pre-failure notifications sent by the hard drives SMART events. It is is RoHS and SAS 1.1 compliant, and offers data transfer rate up to 300 MBps per link in each direction. This product has been tested and validated on Dell Systems.

Models:
PowerEdge: 1950, 2900, 2950, 6950, 2970. 2970FS, 2970 Smart FS, 6950, R200, R300 Rack, R805, R900 FS, T105, T300FS , T605
PowerVault: ML6000 FS, MD1000, MD3000, MD3000i, MD3000 FS, TL2000, TL4000 FS, 124t