Abstract The ThinkSystem RAID 930 family of internal 12 Gbps SAS RAID controllers are high-performance RAID-on-chip (ROC) adapters. These adapters support RAID levels 0/1/10/5/50/6/60, and include an extensive list of RAS and management features.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the ThinkSystem RAID 930-4i, 8i, 16i and 24i adapters and their key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.
Introduction The ThinkSystem RAID 930 family of internal 12 Gbps SAS RAID controllers are high-performance RAID-on-chip (ROC) adapters. These adapters support RAID levels 0/1/10/5/50/6/60 as well as JBOD, and include an extensive list of RAS and management features.
The family is comprised of four adapters:
The ThinkSystem RAID 930-4i supports up to four internal SAS and SATA drives
The ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i supports up to eight internal SAS and SATA drives
The ThinkSystem RAID 930-16i supports up to 16 internal SAS and SATA drives
The ThinkSystem RAID 930-24i supports up to 24 internal SAS and SATA drives
Features:
The ThinkSystem RAID 930 Series internal RAID adapters have the following specifications:
PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface
12 Gbps SAS/SATA RAID controllers, based on the Broadcom MegaRAID 9460 adapter family
2GB or 4GB of integrated flash-backed cache
Connectivity for up to 2, 8, 16 or 24 internal SAS or SATA drives
Support for intermixing SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs. Mixing SAS and SATA drives in the same array is not supported. Mixing of HDDs and SSDs in the same array is not supported.
Support for intermixing of 12 Gbps and 6 Gbps drives.
Support for RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 and 60 standard (The 930-4i supports only RAID 0, 1 in the SN550 and RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 in the SN850 because those blade servers only support two and four drives respectively)
Support for JBOD (non-RAID) drive state
Support for up to 64 virtual disks, up to 128 arrays, up to 16 virtual disks per array
Support for logical drive sizes greater than 2 TB.
Configurable stripe size from 64 KB up to 1 MB
Supports 512e, 512n and 4K sector formatted drives
Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (CoD).
S.M.A.R.T. support.
Configuration through
XClarity Provisioning Manager UEFI interface
XClarity Controller web interface
XClarity Administrator Configuration Patterns
StorCLI command-line interface
LSI Storage Authority (LSA) GUI interface
UEFI Human Interface Infrastructure (HII)
Note: CacheCade is not supported by these adapters
Specifications are subject to change without notice. E&OE. Prices are a guide only, and are valid on 2026-09-29 only, subject to stock being available.The specifications displayed above apply to the entire range and may not apply to this specific model. Kindly note that options cannot be changed for most models, and some options are not available in South Africa.