SAS or SATA Removable Media Devices Not Validated with Intel® RAID
| Storage Option | Optical drives Supportability | Tape drives Supportability |
| Intel® RAID Controller | Supported but not tested1 | Supported but not tested1 |
| Intel® Integrated RAID SROMBSAS18E with activation key and mini-DIMM installed | Supported but not tested1 | Supported but not tested1 |
| Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology II | Supported but not tested1 | Unsupported |
| Intel® Embedded Server RAID Technology | Unsupported | Unsupported |
| Non-RAID SATA/SAS mode | Supported2 | Supported2 |
1 SAS and SATA Removable Media devices, such as tape drives and CD-ROM drives, have not been tested on Intel® add-on RAID Controller, Intel® Integrated RAID, and Intel® Embedded RAID. If you want to use these devices as pass through devices on a product that is in RAID mode, you should perform your own tests to verify that they work as designed.
2 For the information on which removable media devices have been validated on the Intel® Server Board used in your configuration, refer to the Tested Hardware and Operating System List of the appropriate Intel® Server Board.