Robust SAS RAID Solution The MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP, with four internal and four external 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) ports, is the ideal RAID solution for internal and external storage subsystems requiring the flexibility to use either SAS or 3Gb/s SATA drives, or a combination of both. Based on LSI Logic first-to-market SAS IC technology, the MegaRAID SAS 8344ELP provides a robust RAID solution complete with a high-performance Intel I/O processor, PCI Express host interface, 128MB DDRI SDRAM, and intelligent battery backup (iBBU) support. Additional fault tolerant RAID features include support for all key RAID levels, Online Capacity Expansion (OCE), RAID Level Migration (RLM) and Patrol Read for finding and resolving bad media blocks on disk drives. MegaRAID SAS Advantage As the recognized leader in driving and developing storage interface standards and technologies, LSI has extended its leadership with a complete family of SAS RAID solutions for the next generation of DAS for enterprise servers and high performance workstations. MegaRAID SAS solutions enable system builders to meet both performance and capacity requirements using either SAS drives, 3Gb/s SATA drives or a combination of both. SAS drives provide speed, reliability and scalability for enterprise-class systems, while SATA drives allow for low-cost and efficient storage in data-dense environments.

Advanced RAID Management Utility The MegaRAID Management Suite™ of software is a complete spectrum of applications and tools including a next generation pre-boot as well as advanced online RAID management utilities. This new suite of applications features a variety of configuration options and SAS topology views from the system host, controller and disk enclosure down to the logical and physical drive level. This allows administrators to efficiently configure, monitor and manage RAID volumes locally or over the network. Operating System Support The MegaRAID SAS 8344E supports all key versions of Microsoft and Linux. All OS drivers are backed by extensive testing and validation to ensure optimum system performance. For a list of the most current supported drivers.