The Lenovo ThinkSystem 430-8e and 430-16e SAS/SATA 12Gb HBA are high performance host bus adapters for external storage connectivity in ThinkSystem servers. The 430-8e provides two x4 external mini-SAS HD connectors with eight lanes of 12 Gbps SAS. The 430-16e provides four x4 external mini-SAS HD connectors with 16 lanes of 12 Gbps SAS.


The 430 external HBAs have the following features and specifications:
•PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface
•12 Gbps SAS/SATA host bus adapter, based on the Broadcom SAS3408 and SAS3416 IOC design
•PCI low profile, half-length form factor
•External 12 Gbps SAS/SATA ports: ?430-8e: 8 SAS/SATA ports ?430-16e: 16 SAS/SATA ports
•Connectivity for up to 512 external SAS or SATA drives (future planned support for an upper limit of 1024 drives)
•Up to 12 Gbps throughput per port ?Supports 12, 6, or 3 Gbps SAS speeds ?Supports 6 or 3 Gbps SATA speeds
•External x4 HD Mini-SAS connectors (SFF-8644): ?430-8e: 2 external connectors ?430-16e: 4 external connectors
•Non-RAID SAS HBAs that support connectivity to external storage systems and tape drives
•High performance architecture with very deep queue depth
•Advanced power management support
•Support for SSP, SMP, STP, and SATA protocols
•End-to-End CRC with Advanced Error Reporting
•Spread Spectrum Clocking for EMI reductions
•Supports 512e, 512n and 4K (when available) 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)





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