{"video_id":"RfeYH6tcqTo","title":"Adaptec 5445 SATA SAS RAID Controller & MaxIQ SSD Cache Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":379,"segments":[{"start_s":0.399,"end_s":8.96,"text":"this is a very interesting unboxing today I have a kit from adaptech this is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.72,"end_s":11.639,"text":"their Max IQ kit so what this does is it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.96,"end_s":15.48,"text":"actually takes one of their raid cards so here I have an adaptech raid card","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.88,"end_s":21.56,"text":"this is a I don't even know if the part numberers on there oh yeah there's the part number okay so it's a retail one it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.0,"end_s":25.08,"text":"is actually a 5445 if I recall correct oh yeah 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manager CD should probably download the latest off the adaptech website as well as drivers and documentation which you can view the documentation here because it's here or you can download the latest off the adop tech website uh here this is the part name these are the toxic or hazardous substance and elements that I'm guessing it does not contain uh is below the limit requirement okay zero excellent good um okay then we have a quick start guide for the SAS raid control roller all right then here we have a California Proposition isn't oo known to cause birth defects okay so don't eat this raid card please do not eat it okay here we have oh this is useful okay so this is a little guide on SAS connections SAS and SATA connections so they're showing you all of the different ways that you can connect a card to uh drives so you can use one of these with a back you can use one of these to an external box you can use a splitter with a back plane okay okay so this back plane actually does the splitting within the back plane this one actually takes the what is this thing called sff 888 or 887 I can't remember so that's the internal one it takes one of those and turns it into four SATA connectors which SATA connectors are identical to SAS connectors physically so you can actually take one of these and plug it into either a SATA drive or a SAS drive or you can plug directly into the backs of the drives depends how you want to roll okay maximize storage with SAS what do we got here oh here's a little guide to all of the adapt Tech connectors that you could potentially need so here's where I'll probably figure out um which one it is yeah sorry it's an sff 887 and so you need one of these breakout cables to use four drives on this controller that's pretty straightforward all right cool very nice let's get on to the card itself so the card comes with either a full sized PCI bracket or a half height PCI bracket the half height one is here right there okay so if you have like a oneu chassis or something like that then that would be useful so it's a 544 uh it's a 5445 so what that means is it's their 5,000 series card so that means it uses a a premium Intel um radon chip controller so that means that all the processing is done here so that's the 5,000 series and then the next four means that it has okay the two fours basically mean that you can either hook up four drives internally or four drives externally so this is an 8088 and this is an 8087 connector you can't actually use both at the same time because the way the routing Works internally on the card there are actually only four data channels that are available this is a PCI Express 8X card and then it has like I said it has a a processor here so there's a heat sink these things get incredibly hot so if you are planning to run a RAID controller in your system whether it's a server or like a backup solution or a desktop you do want to make sure you have decent ventilation for the card they actually smell like they're burning when they're operating normally so that begs the question why on Earth would you want one of these whether it's for a server or whether it's for desktop use the reason is that like anything dedicated versus an onboard version they're just playing better than onboard controllers it uses like I said a PCIe 8X interface that means it has a ton of bandwidth available to it compared to a typical Southbridge based um raid or SATA controller you can also use SAS drives if you really felt like it but where they really shine is with ssds so couple different ways you could use this you could either grab a Max IQ kit which is quite expensive I have to say and then you can use that as a cache so this is an SSD cache and it behaves kind of like the Cate momentus XT so that's that new drive from seate that has a small and in that case it's a 4 gig SSD built in to up to a 500 gig hard drive well in this case you are using that SSD cache which is much larger this is a 32 gig cache it's also one of the fastest ssds around the x25 x2e and you're using a 32 gig cache for an entire storage array so that means that it's going to take all of your frequently accessed data store it on the SSD so you get lightning fast random reads and wrs for those little bits of data and then you've also you're also backed up by a bigger storage array which can be running raid zero raid one raid five and then you can access all of your bulk data that way so you kind of get the best of both worlds there's a few Solutions out there like this now but this one is aimed more at a server Enterprise workstation level and the others like the Silverstone HDD boost or the momentus XT are aimed at desktop users or laptop users users respectively the other reason to put a high-end RAID controller in your system is if you're oh yeah I kind of already mentioned this if you're running a bunch of ssds you can get huge huge reads and wrs out of a dedicated RAID controller running like three or four ssds versus if you're running them on your onboard raid so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the"}