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ServeRAID F-Series SAS/SATA Controllers for IBM® System x®

The ServeRAID F-Series family of products offers MegaRAID data protection and flexible onboard flash technology that can be used in a variety of ways to help improve performance and server storage density.

These products are optimized to deliver performance demanded by the increasing I/O requirements of today's enterprises. They integrate popular disk media such as SAS and SATA HDDs and emerging solid-state disks into an organization's storage infrastructure.

The portfolio is designed with individual flash modules on board. These flash modules can be configured in a RAID array to support latency-sensitive data storage -- used for the boot volume, for the "golden image" in a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) application, or for storing tempdb in SQL server or indexes/data objects from an Oracle or MySQL database, for example -- and will still support a caching volume as well, dynamically identifying "application hot data" to be stored and serviced from the flash for improved performance and reduced latency.

The IBM ServeRAID F5115-200GB and F5115-800GB SAS/SATA Controllers for IBM System x offer full RAID functionality, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 6, and RAID 60, on connected devices, plus a superior array of additional features. Both the 200 GB and 800 GB flash modules leverage eMLC memory -- each providing essentially two enterprise-quality SSDs on board. The onboard flash storage supports RAID 0 and RAID 1. Intelligent caching algorithms are utilized to help identify frequently accessed application data and promote it to fast onboard flash.

Both the F5115-200GB and F5115-800GB come as a small form factor PCIe adapter, each of which provides one (x4) internal mini-SAS (SFF8087) connector with four lanes of 6 Gbps SAS and eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 to facilitate high data transfer rates.

Providing additional peace of mind, your ServeRAID F-Series portfolio is covered under IBM warranty. All adapters carry a 1-year limited warranty or, when installed in a System x server, assume your system's base warranty and any IBM ServicePac® upgrade.