Product Information
- The ServeRAID M5015 and ServeRAID M5014 SAS/SATA Controllers for IBM System x are the next-generation 6 Gbps SAS 2.0 RAID controllers.
- The adapters have two internal mini-SAS connectors to control up to 32 devices and support global and dedicated hot-spare drives.
- The ServeRAID M5015 controller delivers a full RAID 6 Gbps SAS 2.0 solution with an extended cache (512MB) and a standard battery backup unit.
- With the attachment of the ServeRAID M5000 Advanced Feature Key, the ServeRAID M5015 and M5014 offer the option of RAID 6, RAID 60, and SED Encryption Key management.
- Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) allows the capacity of a virtual disk to be expanded by adding new physical disks or making use of unused space on existing disks, without requiring a reboot.
