Smart Array 5i Plus это Wide Ultra3 SCSI контроллер, который обеспечивает защиту проходящих через него данных и повышение производительности системы в целом.

Спецификация

• Has dual Wide Ultra3 SCSI channels supporting up to 14 drives

• Supports the following operating systems: — Microsoft Windows 2000 — Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 — Novell Netware 5.X and 6.X — Linux (Refer to the Compaq website for further information about Linux version support.) — SCO UnixWare 7.XX

• Supports the Compaq Universal Hot-Plug Tape Drive

• Supports drive and array movement to the Smart Array 532, Smart Array 5302/5304 and Smart Array 5i controllers

• Provides backward compatibility with Wide Ultra2 SCSI devices

• Uses a 32- or 64-bit PCI bus master interface

• Has a user selectable read or optional write cache allocation from 0-64 MB

• Has a Battery Backed Write Cache Enabler

• Supports these additional features:

— RAID (0, 1 + 0, 5)

— Online RAID migration between any two levels

— Online array capacity expansion

— Adjustable stripe size

— Performance monitoring with Compaq Insight Manager

— S.M.A.R.T. paging

— Drive pre-failure notification

— Tagged command queuing

— Multiple logical drives per array

— Compaq Pre-Failure Warranty and Pre-Failure Notification for Compaq drives (requires Compaq Insight Manager)

— Easy-to-use Compaq Array Configuration Utility (ACU) and browser-based Compaq Array Configuration Utility XE (ACU-XE)

— Option ROM Configuration for Arrays (ORCA) Utility

— Redundant ROM