AMCC/3Ware 9650SE-24M8 SATA2 Hardware RAID Controller, Retail

AMCC/3Ware 9650SE-24M8 SATA2 Hardware RAID Controller, Retail Specification

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
Variable stripe size for performance tuning by application
64-bit LBA support
ATA pass-through mode support
Upto 512MB DDR2-533 memory with ECC protection. (see table below)
32 pooled DMA channels
Complete configuration management suite:

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
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
Enhanced data protection with write journaling for non-redundant arrays and 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

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