The Lenovo ThinkSystem 430-8i and 430-16i SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA are high performance host bus adapters for internal storage connectivity in ThinkSystem servers. They integrate the latest enhancements SAS technology and offer eight or 16 lanes of 12 Gbps SAS. With a low-profile form-factor design, these adapters offers two or four x4 internal mini-SAS HD connectors.

The 430 internal HBAs have the following features and specifications:
•PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface
•12 Gbps SAS/SATA host bus adapter, based on the Broadcom SAS3408 and SAS3416 IOC design
•PCI low profile, half-length form factor
•8 or 16 internal 12 Gbps SAS/SATA ports ?430-8i support connectivity to 8 internal drives
?430-16i support connectivity to 16 internal drives
•Up to 12 Gbps throughput per port ?Supports 12, 6, or 3 Gbps SAS speeds
?Supports 6 or 3 Gbps SATA speeds
•Two internal x4 HD Mini-SAS connectors (SFF-8643)
•Non-RAID (JBOD mode) support for SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs (RAID not supported)
•Support internal SAS tape drives
•Optimized for SSD performance
•High performance architecture with very deep queue depth
•Advanced power management support
•Support for SSP, SMP, STP, and SATA protocols
•End-to-End CRC with Advanced Error Reporting
•Spread Spectrum Clocking for EMI reductions
•Supports 512e, 512n and 4K (when available) formatted drives
•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)


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