SELECTION GUIDE
Storage Solutions
broadcom.com
The amount and variety of
data produced by content-
rich Internet, cloud and
enterprise applications poses
unprecedented challenges for
data centers of all sizes.
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HBAs
MegaRAID Entry (iMR)
MegaRAID®
SafeStore™
Cache Protection Options
CacheCade® Pro 2.0
SAS+SAS Cables
U.2 Enabled Cables
New approaches and technologies are needed to manage this deluge of
data: to store it, protect it, and maximize the value from it. These challenges
present opportunities to help the world make the most from its data.
Broadcom is focused on helping customers in wireless communications,
wired infrastructure, enterprise storage and industrial and
other markets solve their challenges. Broadcom has the industry’s broadest
portfolio of storage solutions, backed by decades of experience and trusted
by the world’s leading server and storage suppliers. Broadcom provides
the building blocks for storage solutions that help customers understand,
prioritize, store and protect critical data.
Whether you need to protect data, power your storage solutions, or deliver
the performance needed by critical applications, Broadcom’s 12Gb/s SAS
MegaRAID® controller cards and Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), and Advanced
Software Options are the smart choice.
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STORAGE SOLUTIONS
Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)
Equip storage solutions with the connectivity needed to meet any scaling
needs from the smallest SMBs to the largest data centers. Broadcom
HBAs can enable an easy, longterm storage growth strategy in practically
any direct-attached storage scenario. Whether solutions use SAS or
SATA, NVMe (PCIe), hard disk or flash, or even internal or external storage
elements, our HBAs are designed to create the fabric tying any or all of
those components together into a unified storage effort.
HBA Specifications
Form Factor
Ports
No. of Devices Supported
Ports
Connectors
Bus Interface
SAS/SATA
NVMe
RAID Levels
Product Name
MPN (SGL)
12Gb/s SAS/SATA/NVMe
9405W-16i
9405W-16e
9400-8i8e
9400-16i
9400-16e
9400-8i
9400-8e
12Gb/s SAS/SATA
9305-24i
9305-16e
9305-16i
9300-16e
9300-8e
9300-16i
9300-8i
9300-4i4e
9300-4i
6Gb/s SAS/SATA
9207-8e
9207-8i
9207-4i4e
9201-16e
H5-25427-00
H5-25412-00
H5-25434-00
H5-25379-00
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
Full Height
8
8
8
16
Two SFF-8088
Two SFF-8087
One SFF-8087
One SFF-8088
Four SFF-8088
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x8
1024
256
256
1024
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
05-25699-00
05-25704-00
05-25703-00
H5-25520-00
H5-25460-00
05-25600-00
H5-25573-00
H5-25515-00
H5-25473-00
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
Full-Height
LP MD2
Full-Height
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
24
16
16
16
8
16
8
8
4
Six SFF-8643
Four SFF-8644
Four SFF-8643
Four SFF-8644
Two SFF-8644
Four SFF-8643
Two SFF-8643
One SFF-8643
One SFF-8644
One SFF-8643
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
05-50047-00
05-50044-00
05-50031-02
05-50008-00
05-50013-00
05-50008-01
05-0013-01
LPMD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
16
16
16
16
16
8
8
Four SFF-8643
Four SFF-8644
Two SFF-8643;
Two SFF-8644
Four SFF-8643
Four SFF-8644
Two SFF-8643
Two SFF-8644
PCIe 3.1 x16
PCIe 3.1 x8
PCIe 3.1 x8
PCIe 3.1 x8
PCIe 3.1 x8
PCIe 3.1 x8
PCIe 3.1 x8
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
1024
up to 24
up to 24
up to 24
up to 24
up to 24
up to 24
up to 24
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
JBOD
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MegaRAID Entry (iMR)
MegaRAID SAS/SATA/NVMe entry controller cards provide trusted
MegaRAID data protection and reliability for non-business critical
applications. Offering the same management features and OS support
as the mainstream MegaRAID lineup at an affordable price point, the
entry controllers are great solutions for small and medium businesses
(SMB) deploying entry-level server platforms and workstations.
MegaRAID Entry (iMR) Specifications
Product Name
12Gb/s SAS/SATA/NVMe
9440-8i
12Gb/s SAS/SATA
9341-4i
9341-8i
05-26105-00
05-26106-00
LP MD2
LP MD2
4
8
One SFF-8643
Two SFF-8643
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
SAS3008
SAS3008
05-50008-02
LP MD2
8
Two SFF-8643
PCIe 3.1 x8
SAS3408
MPN (SGL)
Form Factor
Ports
Connectors
Bus Interface
Processor
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STORAGE SOLUTIONS
MegaRAID
Ensure critical data is protected and available with the most widely
deployed RAID data protection architecture. Broadcom enables high
performance storage connectivity and flexible system designs that
support any combination of NVMe, SAS and SATA devices with the
industry’s first hardware RAID adapter with Tri-Mode SerDes technology.
The MegaRAID Tri-Mode storage adapters bring NVMe performance
benefits to the storage tier by providing connectivity and data
protection that MegaRAID technology has offered for over 20 years for
SAS/SATA interfaces.
Broadcom’s Tri-Mode SerDes technology enables operation of NVMe,
SAS or SATA deices in a single drive bay. A single controller can
operating in all three modes concurrently servicing NVMe, SAS or SATA
devices. Tri-Mode support provides a non-disruptive way to evolve
existing data center infrastructure.
MegaRAID Specifications
Form
Factor
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
Bus
Interface
PCIe 3.1 x8
PCIe 3.1 x8
PCIe 3.1 x8
No. of Devices Supported
SAS/SATA
255
255
255
NVMe
up to 24
up to 24
up to 24
Cache
Memory
4GB
2GB
4GB
Product Name
9460-16i
9460-8i
9480-8i8e
12Gb/s SAS/SATA
9365-28i
9361-24i
9361-16i
9361-8i
9361-4i
9380-8e
9380-8i8e
9380-4i4e
6Gb/s SAS/SATA
9271-8i
9271-4i
9270-8i
9286-8e
9286CV-8e
9266-8i
9266-4i
MPN (SGL)
05-50011-00
05-50011-02
05-50031-00
Ports
16
8
16
Connectors
Four SFF-8643
Two SFF-8643
Two SFF-8643,
Two SFF-8644
Six SFF-8643,
One SFF-8654
Six SFF-8643
Four SFF8643
Two SFF-8643
Two SFF-8643
One SFF-8643
Two SFF-8644
Two SFF-8643,
Two SFF-8644
One SFF-8643,
OneSFF-8644
Two SFF-8087
One SFF-8087
Two SFF-8087
Two SFF-8088
Two SFF-8088
Two SFF-8087
One SFF-8087
Cache Protection*
CVPM05
CVPM05
CVPM05
12Gb/s SAS/SATA/NVMe
05-50028-00
05-50011-00
05-25708-00
05-25420-08
05-25420-17
05-25420-10
05-25528-04
05-25716-00
05-25190-02
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
28
24
16
8
8
4
8
16
8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
240
240
240
128
128
128
240
240
240
4GB
4GB
2GB
1GB
2GB
1GB
1GB
2GB
1GB
CVPM05
CVPM02
CVPM02
CVM02
CVM02
CVM02
CVM02
CVPM02
CVM02 (optional)
L5-25413-18
L5-25413-17
L5-25422-19
L5-25421-20
L5-25421-21
L5-25413-16
L5-25413-15
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
LP MD2
8
4
8
8
8
8
4
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x8
128
128
128
240
240
128
128
1GB
1GB
1GB
1GB
1GB
1GB
1GB
LSIiBBU09, LSICVM01
LSIiBBU09, LSICVM01
LSIiBBU09
LSIiBBU09
CacheVault
TM
Included
LSIiBBU09, LSICVM01
LSIiBBU09, LSICVM01
* CacheVault Kit/Power Module sold separately
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