Broadcom PCI-E SATA II Adapter interface cards/adapter

- 8th-generation StorSwitch™ non-blocking switched architecture
On-board I/O RISC processor and RAID offload provides true hardware RAID
- 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.