On-board I/O RISC processor and RAID offload provides true hardware RAID — SCSI device driver model to take advantage of SAS or inexpensive Serial ATA drives
Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance of your OS
Variable stripe size for performance tuning by application
Support for greater than 2TB volumes
512MB DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection
128 max disk drives via SAS expanders
Complete configuration management suite
— 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) - easy to use BIOS configuration tool
— 3ware Disk Manager 2 - browser-based management tool
— Command Line Interface (CLI) - scriptable configuration tool
SNMP support
SMTP support for email/pager notification
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) with remote battery support
Write journaling for improved performance and data protection against accidental drive removal
Multiple SAS/SATA RAID sets
Multiple logical unit sizes and RAID levels on one card
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
Array/Drive Status and drive identification LED support
Enclosure management via I2C and SES 2.0
Drive insertion and removal notification
Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration
RoHS 6 of 6 and WEEE compliant
Port Count: 8 Internal
Supports RAID Levels: 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, Single Disk
Host Interface: PCI-Express x8
Onboard Memory: 512MB DDR2-533
Connector Type: SFF-8087 mini-SAS
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 1.1 specification support; SATA 2.6 Specification support
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support
Power Requirements: 18W maximum
Operating System Support: Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP, 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