LENOVO 7Y37A01087/01KN510 RAID 930-8e 4GB FLASH PCIE 12GB ADAPTER/ No Battery

Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8e 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb External Adapter

The Lenovo Option Part Number 7Y37A01087 (FRU Part Number: 01KN510 / Feature Code: AUNQ) designates the Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 930-8e 4GB Flash PCIe 12Gb External Adapter. Based on the premium LSI/Broadcom SAS3508 dual-core RAID-on-Chip (RoC) processor and the Broadcom MegaRAID 9480 family, this storage controller is specifically designed to provide high-performance, secure, and scalable RAID connectivity from Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to external disk enclosures and JBOD systems (such as the Lenovo ThinkSystem D1212 or D3284).

It comes standard with 4GB of integrated DDR4 cache. In secondary market distributions, this item is frequently designated as “No Battery” / “Without Battery”, meaning the controller card is sold as a standalone hardware assembly without the supplementary CacheVault Power Module (supercapacitor) or its interconnect cabling.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Dedicated External Connectivity: Features two external x4 mini-SAS HD connectors (SFF-8644) delivering a total of 8 independent external 12Gb/s SAS lanes.

• Broadcom SAS3508 Dual-Core RoC: Offloads intensive parity, striping, and hardware calculations entirely from the host CPU onto the controller hardware to guarantee maximum system stability.

• Massive Storage Scalability: Dynamically addresses dense external architectures. It supports up to 64 devices by default, and expands up to 240 physical drives via external SAS expanders when operating on updated firmware.

• Comprehensive Hardware RAID Architecture: Supports standard hardware-based data striping and redundancy across a complete topology matrix: RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, alongside non-RAID JBOD pass-through mode.

• MegaRAID FastPath SSD Acceleration: Features built-in hardware-driven I/O paths optimized to reduce transactional latency, maximizing random IOPS performance for mission-critical solid-state arrays.

• Advanced Data Preservation: Supports seamless Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (RLM), enabling storage administrators to reconfigure live storage arrays without requiring a system reboot.

Technical Specifications