3ware 9650SE-2LP SATA-II RAID Controller

3ware 9650SE-2LP 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.
• Variable stripe size for performance tuning by application.
• 64-bit LBA support.
• ATA pass-through mode support.
• Up to 512MB DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection. (see table below)
• 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.
• 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.
• Enhanced data protection with write journaling for non-redundant arrays and accidental drive removal.
• Drive insertion and removal notification.
• Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Fedora Linux, 2.4 Linux kernel, 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD; 32/64-bit driver support for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
• 3 year warranty.

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