DESCRIPTION
3Ware Escalade 7500-8 PCI 8 Drive ATA RAID Controller Overview:
3wares Escalade 7500 series of Parallel ATA RAID controllers deliver full-featured hardware RAID for PC servers and workstations. Based on proven network switching technology, 3wares StorSwitch architecture provides superior reliability, scalability and performance over traditional shared-bus architectures like SCSI and software-based ATA solutions. 3wares Escalade 7500 controllers set the standard for Parallel ATA RAID
Escalade 7500 Series Features:
- Non-blocking switch technology with RAID 5 parity
- On-board processor minimizes host CPU overhead
- SCSI device driver for O/S compatibility and easy installation
- Easy-to-configure arrays from BIOS
- Browser-based 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) utility with password security for network management of 3ware storage arrays
- SMTP support for email / pager notification of events
- Hot swap and hot spare support for data availability
- Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection
- BIOS supports booting from the array
- S.M.A.R.T. disk drive monitoring for reliability
- Multiple logical volumes and RAID levels can exist on one card
- Multiple card support within a system for very large storage requirements
- R5 Fusion technology for accelerated RAID 5 writes
Features:
Model: 7500-8
ATA drives supported: 8 ATA drives
RAID levels supported: 0, 1, 10, 5, JBOD
Target Use :High capacity with high performance RAID 5
Typical Applications: Enterprise file servers, email, and database applications
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