Green Solution
The Series 6Q adapters come standard with Adaptec's industry-first Zero Maintenance Cache Protection that eliminates Battery Backup Units ( BBUs) in favor of 4GB of NAND flash memory paired with a supercapacitor to protect cached data and eliminate the monitoring, maintenance, disposal and replacement costs associated with BBUs.

Reduction of Capital and Operating Expenses
With the acceleration of IOPs and reduction of latency, maxCache 2.0 allows data center and cloud computing customers to host more users and perform more transactions per second using less server hardware. Through the intelligent usage of SSD performance and HDD capacity, maxCache reduces capital expenses by reducing the overall server hardware investment necessary to support a given workload. The reduction in servers has an additional financial benefit of reducing associated operating costs of power, cooling, and maintenance, delivering a highly reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) solution.

Compatibility, Reliability, and Support
Adaptec Series Q has been extensively tested with third-party components to deliver the utmost in compatibility. The cards are backed by a 3-year warranty and the company's legendary technical support.

Benefits

• Supports Adaptec maxCache SSD caching with any SSDs.
• Supports both SATA and SAS devices.
• Ideal for I/O intensive storage applications requiring low latency; NAS, OLTP servers, web servers, databases, and digital surveillance.

Key Differentiators

• Adaptec maxCache SSD caching support
• Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection

Customer Needs

High I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing.

Key RAID Features

• Supports Adaptec maxCache SSD caching with any SSD
• Supports SSD cache pool capacity up to 1TB
• Optimized Disk Utilization
• Supports up to 8 SSDs in cache pool
• Supports 8 direct-attached or up to 256 SATA or SAS disk drives using SAS expanders
• RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50 and 60
• Quick initialization
• Online Capacity Expansion
• Copyback Hot Spare
• Dynamic caching algorithm
• Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• Background initialization
• Hot-plug drive support
• RAID Level Migration
• Hot spares – global, dedicated, and pooled
• SES and SAF-TE enclosure management
• Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spares
• Configurable stripe size
• S.M.A.R.T. support
• Multiple arrays per disk drive
• Dynamic sector repair
• Staggered drive spin-up
• Bootable array support

Management Utilities Software

• Adaptec maxView Storage Manager
• Web based GUI Management Utility
• OS Support: Windows, Linux, Solaris VMware
• Remote configuration, monitoring & notification
• Remote firmware updates
• SMI-S Support
• SMTP

ARCCONF

• Command Line Interface
• SMI-S support for VMware

Adaptec BIOS Configuration Utility (CTRL+A)

• BIOS level configuration utility
• Flashable BIOS support

Adaptec uEFI BIOS Configuration Utility

• HII based confi guration utility
• Flashable BIOS support

For more information on Adaptec maxView Storage Manager, please see ASK Answer ID 17285.

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows
• Red Hat Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Fedora
• Debian Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• Sun Solaris
• FreeBSD
• VMware ESX

For a detailed list see ASK Answer ID 17137.Data Transfer Rate

6 Gb/s per port

Bus System Interface

8-lane PCIe Gen2

Form Factor

Low-Profile MD2

Cache Memory

512MB of DDR2 memory

Connector Configuration

• 6805TQ: 2 Internal (SFF-8087) Mini SAS, top-mounted

Package ContentsModel 6805TQ

• Adaptec maxCache 6805TQ Adapter with AFM-600

Also included with each adapter:

• Additional low profile vented bracket

Physical Size

2.5" H x 6.6" L (64mm x 167mm)

Operating Temperature

0°C to 50°C* (with 200 LFM airflow)

Note: This Adaptec card contains a powerful RAID processor which requires adequate airflow to operate reliably. Please install this card only into server or PC chassis with recommended airflow (200 LFM).

* Ambient temperature measured 1" away from the RAID processor

Operating Humidity

Relative humidity: 10% to 90%, non-condensing

Operating Voltage

0.17 A @ 3.3 VDC

1.25 A @ 12 VDC measured on PCIe Gen 2 systems with 6G drives

Regulatory Certification

CE, FCC, UL, C-tick, VCCI, KCC

Environmental Compliance

RoHS, REACH (Aug 12)

Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)

860,953 hours at 40 degree C.