- 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.
