The Intel RS2SC008 is designed with industry-leading RAID technology, including LSI* MegaRAID. It is an easy to use adapter with the ability to support more than 750K RAID 5 IOPS and 6,000MB/s throughput performance, resulting in more than a 60 percent improvement in IOPs and double the bandwidth of previous generation RAID adapters when using high performance 12Gb/s devices.

With eight external ports, the Intel RS2SC008 allows for multiple drives in a SAS network to be connected to a serverand joined as intelligent RAID arrays. It features two 1.2GHz processor cores and a 72-bit DDRIII interface that drives1GB cache memory at 1866MHz. The Intel RCS3008 provides exceptional data throughput since it is designed with 8 PCI Express lanes that comply with the latest PCI Express 3.0 specification, with 8 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) per lane. It is also backward compatible with previous PCIe and SAS generations through automatic negotiation and provides SAS data transfer rates of 12, 6, and 3Gb/s per lane, and SATA data transfer rates at 6 and 3Gb/s per lane.