Features

3ware 9650SE Features

• 8th-generation StorSwitch™ non-blocking switched architecture
  • On-board I/O RISC processor and RAID offload provides true hardware RAID
• SCSI device driver model to take advantage of the benefits of SCSI using inexpensive Serial ATA drives
• Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance of your OS
• Variable stripe size for performance tuning by application
• 64-bit LBA support (greater than 2TB volume)
• ATA pass-through mode support
• DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection
• 32 pooled DMA channels
• Complete configuration management suite
  • 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM2) easy to use BIOS configuration tool
  • 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2) browser-based management tool
  • Command Line Interface (CLI) scriptable configuration tool
• SNMP support
• SMTP support for email/pager notification
• ATA/6 and Out of band (OOB) staggered drive spin-up support
• Auto carving allows LUNs > 2TB to be divided into multiple units for legacy operating systems limited to 2TB max. per LUN
• Battery Backup Unit (BBU) support (excluding 2-port model)
• Multiple logical unit sizes and RAID levels on one card
• Multiple card support within a system for large storage requirements
• Hot-swap and hot-spare support for data availability
• Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection
• S.M.A.R.T. disk drive monitoring for reliability
• Emergency Flash Recovery protects against failed firmware upgrade
• Drive activity LED support
• Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration
• Write journaling for improved performance and data protection against accidental drive removal
• Drive insertion and removal notification
• Array/Drive Status and drive identification LED support (requires 3ware Chassis Control Unit-enabled backplane)
• Chassis Control Unit for enclosure management via I2C
• RoHS compliant