Cisco - storage controller (RAID) - SAS 12Gb/s

The Cisco UCS S3260 Dual RAID Controller is based on the Broadcom 3316 SAS/SATA, 16-port RAID-on-chip (RoC). This controller is divided into two boards: a base board and power board. The power board supplies power to the base board. It provides a full-featured hardware-based RAID solution that supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. The S3260 supports data striping across multiple disks, which reduces disk access time because multiple disks simultaneously read or write data. It backs up data with either data mirroring or a parity block. You can use either backup method to recover lost data in the event of a disk failure. This controller can increase system performance and provide fault-tolerant data storage.