Overview
3ware's advanced switched RAID architecture - StorSwitch unleashes the power of Serial ATA (SATA), delivering the highest hardware RAID performance in its class. The Escalade 9500S hardware RAID controllers deliver in excess of 400 Mbytes per second (MB/sec) sustained RAID 5 reads and over 100 MB/sec RAID 5 sequential writes with less than 3% CPU utilization.
Key Features
- Optimized hardware XOR RAID 5 engine provides true hardware based RAID and intelligent drive management functions
- Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, Single Disk (JBOD)
- Single array capacity scales to over 3 terabytes per controller (64-bit LBA support)
- 128 MB of ECC protected SDRAM, upgradable to 1 GB