The ServeRAID M5210 and M5210e SAS/SATA controllers have the following specifications:

• LSI SAS3108 12 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC) controller.
• PCI low profile, half-length - MD2 form factor (M5210) or onboard chip (M5210e).
• Eight internal 12 Gbps SAS/SATA ports (support for 12, 6, or 3 Gbps SAS speeds and 6 or 3 Gbps SATA speeds). Up to 12 Gbps throughput per port.
• Two internal x4 HD Mini-SAS connectors (SFF-8643).
• PCI Express 3.0 x8 host interface.
• Support for RAID 0, 1, and 10 standard; support for RAID 5, 50, 6, and 60 with optional upgrades.
• Optional onboard data cache (DDR3 running at 1866 MHz) with the choice of the following backup:
  • 1 GB (no battery backup)
  • 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB with flash backup
• Support for SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs.
• Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs. Mixing different types of drives in the same array is not supported.
• Support for intermixing of 12 Gbps and 6 Gbps drives
• Connections to up to 32 internal drives, depending on the server model.
• Optional support for self-encrypting drives (SEDs) with MegaRAID SafeStore.
• Optional support for SSD performance acceleration with MegaRAID FastPath and SSD caching with MegaRAID CacheCade.
• Support for up to 64 virtual disks, up to 128 arrays, up to 16 virtual disks per array, and up to 32 physical drives per array.
• Support for logical drive sizes greater than 2 TB.
• Support for Integrated MegaRAID (iMR) mode (no cache memory upgrades installed) or MegaRAID (MR) mode (requires 1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB cache memory upgrade).
  • iMR mode supports (no cache memory upgrades installed) the following features:
    • RAID 0, 1, and 10, and, optionally, 5 and 50
    • Fixed stripe unit size of 64 KB
    • Self-encrypting drives with optional Zero Cache/RAID 5 upgrade
    • Both RAID and JBOD (pass-thru mode with system drives) configurations
      • Up to 16 drives are supported in a RAID configuration.
      • Up to 63 drives are supported in a JBOD configuration. (JBOD drives can be used as bootable drives.)
  • MR mode supports (1 GB, 2 GB, or 4 GB cache memory upgrade required):
    • RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50 and, optionally, 6 and 60 (Non-RAID is not supported.)
    • Configurable stripe unit size from 64 KB up to 1 MB
    • Self-encrypting drives
    • Optional SSD performance features (FastPath and CacheCade)
• Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (CoD).
• S.M.A.R.T. support.
• MegaRAID Storage Manager management software.