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.
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SERIES 5Z DATA SHEET
Adaptec SATA & SAS RAID Family (5405Z, 5445Z, 5805Z)
PMC-Sierra, Inc.
1380 Bordeaux Dr.
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA
Tel: +1 (408) 239-8000
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Adaptec Unifi ed Serial Controller Family
Why to buy? Performance Unifi ed Serial RAID controllers support both SATA and SAS devices and offer unique features including Zero Maintenance
Cache Protection and Intelligent Power Management. Ideal for bandwidth intensive storage applications; NAS, online transaction processing
servers (OLTP), web servers, digital surveillance and streaming applications.
Customer Needs High I/O transaction and high bandwidth processing; solutions that reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs
Zero Maintenance Cache
Protection
— Maximizes performance and extends power savings by protecting data in controller cache without incurring monitoring, replacement or
disposal costs.
— Support for full installation lifecycle – up to ten years – ensuring data availability and reducing total cost of ownership.
Intelligent Power
Management
Automated customer-confi gurable feature that reduces disk drive energy use by up to 70% without compromising application
performance. Two confi gurable modes supported:
Standby mode – low-power mode; spins disks at lower RPMs (must be supported by disk drive).
Power-off mode – Spin down drives when not in use.
RAID Features — Supports up to 256 SATA or SAS devices using SAS expanders
— RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60 and JBOD
— 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
— Automatic/manual rebuild of hot spares
— SES and SAF-TE enclosure management
— Confi gurable stripe size
— S.M.A.R.T. support
— Multiple arrays per disk drive
— Dynamic sector repair
— Staggered drive spin-up
— Bootable array support
— Optimized Disk Utilization
Management Utilities Adaptec Storage Manager™ (ASM)
— Java-based GUI Management Utility
— Remote confi guration, monitoring and notifi cation
— ASM OS Support: Windows, Linux, SCO, Solaris, FreeBSD
— Microsoft VDS Support
— SNMP, SMTP
— Remote fi rmware updates
ARCCONF
— Command Line Interface
Adaptec BIOS Confi guration Utility (ACU)
— BIOS level confi guration utility
— Flashable BIOS support
Operating System Windows 7, Windows XP, Server 2003/2008, Vista, VMware ESX 3.x, ESXi 3.x and vSphere 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enter-
prise Server (SLES), SCO OpenServer, UnixWare, Sun Solaris 10 x86, FreeBSD. The latest drivers are available at www.adaptec.com/support.
Physical Dimensions 5405Z/5445Z/5805Z — 2.5”H x 6.6”L (64mm x 167mm)
Operating Temperature* 0°C to 55°C (with 200 LFM airfl ow)
Operating Voltage 0.40A @ 3.3V; 1.2A @ 12V
Regulatory Certifi cation CE, FCC, UL, C-tick, VCCI
Environmental Compliance RoHS, REACH
MTBF 873,402 hours at 40°C
Warranty 3 years
Adaptec RAID 5405Z 5805Z 5445Z
Order Part Number 2266800-R (single) 2266900-R (single) 2267000-R (single)
Form Factor MD2 - Low Profi le MD2 - Low Profi le MD2 - Low Profi le
Ports 4 internal 8 internal 8 (4 int / 4 ext)
Connectors 1 SFF-8087 (int.) 2 SFF-8087 1 SFF-8087 (int.) / 1 SFF-8088 (ext.)
Bus Interface 8-Lane PCIe Gen1.1 8-Lane PCIe Gen1.1 8-Lane PCIe Gen1.1
Processor 1.2 GHz Dual Core 1.2 GHz Dual Core 1.2 GHz Dual Core
Cache 512MB 512MB 512MB ™
*Note: This Adaptec card contains a powerful RAID processor which requires adequate airfl ow to operate reliably. Please install this card only into server or PC chassis with recommended airfl ow (200 LFM).
Ambient temperature measured 1” away from the RAID processor.
