SERIES 5Z DATA SHEET
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Unied Serial®(SATA/SAS) RAID Controllers Deliver Maximum Performance,
Energy Efciency and Operating Cost Savings
Adaptec 3Gb/s SATA & SAS RAID Family
with Intelligent Power Management & Zero-Maintenance
Cache Protection (5405Z, 5445Z, 5805Z)
Product Highlights
3Gb/s throughput at each port
1.2GHz Dual Core RAID on Chip
(ROC)
– High-performance RAID 5/6
4- and 8-port low-profile MD2
Supports up to 256 SATA or
SAS devices
Enclosure management support
via LED header and SES2/
SGPIO
Intelligent Power Management
– Reduces power and cooling
costs by as much as 70%
Adaptec Zero-Maintenance
Cache Protection with 4GB
NAND flash:
– No data loss from power failures:
Replaces lithium ion batteries
– Low Operating Costs:
No installation, monitoring, main-
tenance, disposal or replacement
costs due to batteries
– Maintenance-free cached data
protection
– Instant RAID cache protection
– Environmentally conscious
– No toxic battery disposal
– Simplified IATA compliance
Hybrid RAID 1 & 10: SSD +
HDD for Maximum Performance
and Reliability
Built upon on our industry-leading Series 5
RAID controllers, Series 5Z cards feature a dual
core RAID on Chip (ROC), DDR2 533MHz
write cache, and an x8 PCI Express host bus
connection. ey support up to 256 SATA/SAS
devices and feature Adaptec Intelligent Power
Management for improved energy-eciency, plus
Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection (ZMCP —
pronounced “zemcap”) to help data centers save
thousands of dollars in operating costs.
Highest Performance
Series 5Z controllers deliver speeds up to ve times
faster than competing products — over 250,000
IOPs and 1.2GB/s — making them ideal for
enterprise-class storage systems.
Advanced Data Protection
Adaptec RAID Code (ARC) delivers maximum
reliability with RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6,
10, 50, 60 and JBOD. ARC also oers RAID
Level Migration, Online Capacity Expansion,
and Copyback Hot Spare.
Hybrid RAID
With Hybrid RAID 1 & 10 the Series 5Z
controllers oer maximum performance and
reliability by combining Solid State Drives (SSDs)
and Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in a single array.
By performing read operations from the faster
SSD and write operations on both the SSDs and
HDDs the result is tremendous performance
gains over standard HDD RAID arrays. Hybrid
RAID oers the benets of both technologies and
allows a better cost per GB ratio than comparable
SSD-only RAID arrays.
The Case for Cache
e fastest way for a RAID controller to fulll
a read or write request is to serve data out of its
cache. Enabling the RAID controller cache oers
signicant performance benets, such as reduced
latency in I/O requests, bandwidth and queue
depths that surpass soware application limits, and
on-the-y parity calculations on sequential writes.
Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection
RAID controllers typically employ battery backup
units (BBUs) to protect cached data during power
loss, but BBUs require constant monitoring and
preserve data for a maximum of 72 hours during
power loss. Adaptec Series 5Z controllers with
Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection provide full
protection to cached data with no installation,
monitoring, maintenance, disposal, or replacement
costs.
Featuring 4GB of NAND ash memory with
super capacitor technology, Series 5Z controllers
instantly save cache contents in the event of system
power loss. e super capacitor charges instantly
while the system is booting, cache protection
is available within minutes of installation, and
stored data is preserved for up to 10 years. And,
since it is ash-based, systems don’t need to be
shut down for battery replacement.
Intelligent Power Management
Intelligent Power Management (IPM) slashes
power and cooling costs by up to 70% using
intelligent I/O caching combined with disk drive
power savings via standby and power-o modes.
One-view Storage Management
Adaptec Storage Manager™, a one-view tool
centralizes management of all Adaptec RAID
products.
Broad Operating System Support
e Series 5Z family supports all major operating
systems, including Windows, Linux, VMware and
FreeBSD.
Compatibility, Reliability, and Support
e Series 5Z family has been extensively tested
with more than 300 third-party components to
deliver the utmost in compatibility. e cards are
backed by a 3-year warranty and the company’s
legendary technical support.
