SCSI device driver model to take advantage of the benefits of SCSI using inexpensive Serial ATA drives
Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance of your OS
Variable stripe size for performance tuning by application
64-bit LBA support (greater than 2TB volume)
ATA pass-through mode support
DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection
32 pooled DMA channels
Complete configuration management suite
3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM2) – easy to use BIOS configuration tool
3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2) – browser-based management tool
Command Line Interface (CLI) – scriptable configuration tool
SNMP support
SMTP support for email/pager notification
ATA/6 and Out of band (OOB) 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) support (excluding 2-port model)
Multiple logical unit sizes and RAID levels on one card
Multiple card support within a system for 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
Emergency Flash Recovery protects against failed firmware upgrade
Drive activity LED support
Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration
Write journaling for improved performance and data protection against accidental drive removal
Drive insertion and removal notification
Array/Drive Status and drive identification LED support (requires 3ware Chassis Control Unit-enabled backplane)
Chassis Control Unit for enclosure management via I2C
RoHS compliant
Specifications
Operating System Support
Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, 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 For complete OS listing, go to: www.lsi.com/channel/ChannelDownloads/
3ware 9650SE Specifications
Low profile form factor (2, 4, 8-port configurations)
Full-height form factor (12, 16, 24-port configurations)