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Management number | 202063231 | Release Date | 2025/09/19 | List Price | $1,278.50 | Model Number | 202063231 | ||
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The Lenovo 7Y37A01082 is a ThinkSystem RAID 530-8i adapter that plugs into a PCIe 3.0 x8 slot and lets you control up to eight 12Gb/s SATA or SAS drives with ease. It is aimed at administrators who want balanced performance and data protection without extra complexity.
Because the adapter speaks both SATA and SAS at 12Gb/s, you can combine cost effective hard drives for bulk capacity with solid state drives for high speed caching or hot data. Lenovo includes FastPath technology so random reads and writes from SSDs reach the controller with minimal latency, an advantage when virtual machines or database workloads need quick access.
RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50 are all available, so you can choose between pure performance, mirrored redundancy, or striped parity sets depending on your priorities. Online capacity expansion and RAID migration let you grow or reconfigure an array while the server keeps running, which avoids downtime and last minute maintenance windows.
Reliability features such as background data integrity checks, auto resume after a power interruption, and support for hot spare drives run on their own. Even if a drive fails, the array can rebuild automatically once a replacement is present or the system restarts.
The adapter fits naturally in Lenovo ThinkSystem SR or ST series servers that host virtualization clusters, file shares, or edge databases in retail, education, and branch offices. Anyone who wants to consolidate disks internally and still keep an eye on data protection will find this card a straightforward, budget friendly answer.
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