Lenovo ThinkSystem 940-8i 4GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb RAID Adapter Card 4Y37A09728

Lenovo ThinkSystem 940-8i 4GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb RAID Adapter Card

The ThinkSystem RAID 940 family of PCIe 4.0 12 Gbps SAS RAID controllers are high-performance RAID-on-chip (ROC) adapters for connectivity to drives internal to the server. These adapters support RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 and 60, and include an extensive list of RAS and management features.

Technical specifications

The ThinkSystem RAID 940 Series internal RAID adapters have the following specifications:

• PCIe 4.0 x8 host interface, also compatible with a PCIe 3.0 host interface
• 12 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID controllers, based on the Broadcom MegaRAID 9560 adapter family
• 4GB or 8GB of integrated flash-backed cache
• Connectivity for up to 32 internal SAS or SATA drives:
  • RAID 940-8i supports up to eight internal SAS or SATA drives
  • RAID 940-16i supports up to 16 internal SAS or SATA drives
  • RAID 940-32i supports up to 32 internal SAS or SATA drives
• Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs. Mixing SAS and SATA drives in the same array is not supported. Mixing of HDDs and SSDs in the same array is not supported.

• Support for intermixing of 12 Gbps and 6 Gbps drives.
• Support for RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 and 60 standard
• Support for JBOD (non-RAID) drive state
• Support for logical drive sizes greater than 2 TB
• Configurable stripe size up to 1 MB
• Supports 512e, 512n and 4K sector formatted drives
• Supports UNMAP command for SAS SSDs (JBOD and RAID volumes)
• Supports TRIM command for SATA SSDs (JBOD)
• Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (CoD).
• S.M.A.R.T. support.
• Configuration through
  • XClarity Provisioning Manager UEFI interface
  • XClarity Controller web interface
  • XClarity Administrator Configuration Patterns
  • StorCLI command-line interface
  • LSI Storage Authority (LSA) GUI interface
  • UEFI Human Interface Infrastructure (HII)

Note: CacheCade is not supported by these adapters

Compatible with

• ThinkSystem SR150

• ThinkSystem SR250

• ThinkSystem SR530

• ThinkSystem SR530 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR550

• ThinkSystem SR550 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR570

• ThinkSystem SR570 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR590

• ThinkSystem SR590 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR630

• ThinkSystem SR630 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR630 V2

• ThinkSystem SR635

• ThinkSystem SR645

• ThinkSystem SR650

• ThinkSystem SR650 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR650 V2

• ThinkSystem SR655

• ThinkSystem SR665

• ThinkSystem SR670

• ThinkSystem SR670 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR670 V2

• ThinkSystem SR850

• ThinkSystem SR850 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR850 V2

• ThinkSystem SR850P

• ThinkSystem SR860

• ThinkSystem SR860 SP2

• ThinkSystem SR860 V2

• ThinkSystem SR950

• ThinkSystem SR950 SP2

• ThinkSystem ST250

• ThinkSystem ST50

• ThinkSystem ST550

• ThinkSystem ST550 SP2

• ThinkSystem ST650 V2