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01PE817 is the Lenovo spare part number for the ThinkSystem RAID 940-8i 8GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter, a RAID adapter in the adapters commodity. It is also sold as option 4Y37A09729, feature code B8NW (the SAS/SATA configuration; the Tri-Mode configuration of the same adapter uses feature code BGM0).
The adapter is built on a Broadcom SAS3908 controller, the equivalent of the MegaRAID 9560-8i 8G, with a PCIe 4.0 x8 host interface and 12 Gb SAS port interface. It is a low profile PCIe card with 8 ports on one x8 SFF-8654 connector and takes up to 8 hot-swap devices of the HDD, SED or SSD type; with Tri-Mode it takes SAS, SATA and NVMe U.3 drives, and NVMe U.2 drives are not supported. Cache is 8GB, standard, with CacheVault flash protection. RAID levels are 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6 and 60, with a JBOD (non-RAID) mode, up to 240 virtual drives per controller and 16 per array, logical drive sizes above 2 TB and a stripe size up to 1 MB. FastPath (Performance Accelerator) and SafeStore SED support are included, and CacheCade is not supported. The adapter takes 512e, 512n and 4K sector drives, supports UNMAP on SAS SSDs and TRIM on SATA SSDs in JBOD, and accepts mixed drive speeds.
Other options in the same Lenovo table of 940 series adapters: 4Y37A09728 (feature code B8NY) is the RAID 940-8i 4GB Flash adapter, 4Y37A78600 (BM35) the RAID 940-16i 4GB Flash adapter, 4Y37A09730 (B8NZ) the RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash adapter, 4Y37A09735 (B8P0) the RAID 940-16i 8GB Flash Internal adapter and 4Y37A09733 (B8P8) the RAID 940-32i 8GB Flash adapter.
01PE817 fits 20 products across 46 machine types. ThinkSystem products that take 01PE817: SR650 V2 (7D15, 7Z72, 7Z73); SR665 (7D2V, 7D2W); SR645 (7D2X, 7D2Y); SR850 V2 (7D31, 7D32, 7D33); SR860 V2 (7D42, 7Z59, 7Z60); SR630 V3 (7D72, 7D73, 7D74); SR650 V3 (7D75, 7D77); ST650 V3 (7D7A, 7D7B); SR860 V3 (7D93, 7D94, 7D95); SR850 V3 (7D96, 7D97, 7D98); SR665 V3 (7D9A, 7D9B); SR645 V3 (7D9C, 7D9D); SR655 V3 (7D9E, 7D9F); SR635 V3 (7D9G, 7D9H); SR675 V3
SR675i V3 (7D9Q, 7D9R); SR950 V3 (7DC4, 7DC5, 7DC6); SR670 V2 (7Z22, 7Z23); SR630 V2 (7Z70, 7Z71); ST650 V2 (7Z74, 7Z75). Other entries for 01PE817: IBM Ceph (7D76).
| Spare part number | 01PE817 |
| Manufacturer | Lenovo |
| Type | RAID adapter |
| Option number | 4Y37A09729 |
| Feature code | B8NW |
| Controller chip | Broadcom SAS3908 (MegaRAID 9560-8i 8G equivalent) |
| Host interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| Ports | 8 on one x8 SFF-8654 connector |
| Form factor | PCIe low profile |
| Cache | 8GB standard, CacheVault flash protection |
| RAID levels | 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60 |
| Number of compatible products | 20 |
| Number of machine types | 46 |
