3Ware 8506-4LP User Guide - Page 16
Escalade Serial ATA Controller, RAID increases performance and adds redundancy - raid card
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Introduction ■ SMTP support for email/pager notification of events ■ Easy-to-configure arrays from BIOS or CLI ■ BIOS supports booting from the array ■ Multiple logical volumes and RAID levels can exist on one card ■ Multiple card support within a system for very 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 ■ R5 Fusion technology for accelerated RAID 5 writes (only available on 7500, 7506, 8500 and 8506 models) Escalade Serial ATA Controller The Escalade 8000 series of Serial ATA RAID cards are the most advanced controllers available, supporting from 2 to 12 Serial ATA drives. These cards provide the highest level of RAID 5 performance and scalability, traditionally seen only with a SCSI array. Based on 3ware's 4th generation network switched architecture, the 8000 series are the only Serial ATA controllers that unleash the point-to-point performance benefits of Serial ATA. Teamed with a mature suite of software and firmware management tools, the Escalade 8000 series of RAID controllers provide a powerful, affordable alternative to SCSI. RAID increases performance and adds redundancy Escalade ATA RAID Controllers use a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) to increase your storage system's performance and provide fault tolerance. The ATA RAID Controllers offer RAID 0 variable striped arrays for performance; RAID 1 mirrored arrays for fault tolerance; variable striped mirrored RAID 10 arrays for fault tolerance and performance; and RAID 5 arrays for fault tolerance, high capacity and storage efficiency. RAID 0 arrays maximize performance and capacity When drives are configured in a striped disk array (see Figure 1), the Escalade ATA RAID Controller distributes large files across the multiple disks using RAID 0 techniques. Striped disk arrays achieve high transfer rates because they can read or write data on more than one drive simultaneously. Striped disk arrays give exceptional performance, particularly for data intensive applications such as video editing, computer aided design and geographical information systems. Striping your disk array concatenates each drive's capacity into one large volume. The stripe size is user configurable at 64K, 128K, 256K, 512K or 1M. 8 3ware Escalade ATA RAID Controller User Guide