3ware - Serial ATA II PCI-X RAID
3ware - Serial ATA II PCI-X RAID - RAID Data Recovery Services
The 3ware 9550SXU PCI-X to SATA II RAID controller once again proves the company’s dominance in the market on RAID 5 technology. Delivering over 800MB/sec RAID 5 reads and exceeds 380MB/sec RAID 5 writes, 3ware 9550SXU are 200 percent faster than the industry-leading 3ware 9500S RAID controller.
Featuring the 7th generation StorSwitch point-to-point non-blocking switch fabric technology and sophisticated SATA II features including 3 Gbps transfer speed, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), and Port Multiplier support, the 9550SXU controllers deliver unmatched performance. Another specialty of these PCI-X RAID controllers is their Web-based, command-based, and API software components. The 9550SXU is available in 4, 8, 12, and 16-port configurations. It supports operating systems including Microsoft Windows 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Fedora Linux, 2.4 Linux kernel, 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD, with 32/64-bit support.
On-board PowerPC RISC processor provides true hardware RAID. The SCSI device driver model helps leverage the benefits of SCSI using inexpensive Serial ATA drives. Bootable array support offered for greater fault tolerance. It provides up to 256 MB DDR2 400 memory with ECC protection and 32 pooled DMA channels. The 9550SXU controllers feature a complete configuration management suite including the 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (BIOS configuration tool), 3ware Disk Manager 2 (browser-based management tool), and the Command Line Interface (scriptable configuration tool). It supports networking protocols such as SNMP and SMTP and provides secure access via SSH or HTTPS. The hot-swap and hot-spare features support for data availability and S.M.A.R.T. disk drive monitoring is offered for reliability.
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