The MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e controller, with eight external ports, delivers two 800MHz PowerPC processor cores and a 72-bit DDRIII interface that drives 1GB cache memory. This controller is ideal for configuring external storage enclosures with high-performance SAS hard drives, high-capacity SATA hard drives or application-accelerating
solid state drives (SSDs) or for building more sophisticated configurations using LSI 6Gb/s SAS
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