Intel® RAID Adapters RS3P4TF160F and RS3P4MF088F Hardware User Guide
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Product Overview
The Intel RAID Adapters RS3P4TF160F and RS3P4MF088F are part of the second generation of tri-mode
Intel RAID adapters. This new generation provides the capability of creating RAID configurations with Serial
Attached SCSI (SAS) drives and/or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives, and/or
Non-Volatile Memory Express* (NVMe*) drives, with a x8 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express*
(PCIe*) 4.0 host interface.
The Intel RAID Adapters RS3P4TF160F and RS3P4MF088F are high-performance, intelligent adapters with
RAID control capability. They provide reliability, high-performance, and fault-tolerant drive subsystem
management. Secure boot is another new feature, which increases security since it allows only authenticated
firmware to execute on the adapter.
To address the needs for internal and external drive connectivity solutions, two tri-mode Intel RAID adapters for
PCIe 4.0 are available:
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Intel® RAID Adapter RS3P4TF160F
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Full featured tri-mode RAID adapter with 16 internal ports
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Intel® RAID Adapter RS3P4MF088F
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Full featured tri-mode RAID adapter with 8 internal and 8
external ports
Note:
The tri-mode Intel RAID adapters are designed to work on systems configured for optimized UEFI boot
mode. No built-in configuration utility exists for these adapters when the system is configured for legacy
boot mode. No boot support is available if used on systems configured for legacy boot mode.
The Intel RAID Adapters RS3P4TF160F and RS3P4MF088F include a SAS interface and an NVMe interface.
Both share the SFF-8654 8i connector by multiplexing the data and sideband signals. Compared with the
previous generation of Intel RAID adapters, the new tri-mode family offers increased performance by
reducing latency, reducing power consumption, increasing IOPS, increasing queue depth, and increasing
cache memory.
Additionally, the new PCIe 4.0 interface doubles the host bandwidth. It offers a variety of NVMe drive
configurations, including direct attach, through switch, x4 and x2 connections; also support for common
clock and SRIS NVMe type drives.
Although the Intel RAID Adapters RS3P4TF160F and RS3P4MF088F can be installed on many different
server systems, these were designed for the Intel® Server System M50CYP and the Intel® Server Systems
R2000WF and R1000WF Families. This guide refers to these specific server systems.
Notes:
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On the Intel Server System M50CYP (at launch), only x4 common clock direct-attach NVMe drives are
supported.
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On the Intel Server Systems R2000WF and R1000WF Families, only the SAS and SATA drives are
supported.
