3ware 9650SE-2LP PCI Express x4 Low Profile Ready SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Hardware RAID Controller Card

Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s with RAID The revolutionary Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface provides scalable performance for storage devices. SATA technology enables easy-to-install and high-performance hard drives. Eight SATA ports (Through two Multi-lane Connectors) support RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50,Single Disk, JBOD for better performance and reliability.

 PCI Express x4 interface provides 10 Gb/s throughput and full-duplex operation for enhanced performance

Model RC-9650SE-2LP
Form Factor Low Profile
Port Count 2
PCI Express Lanes 1
Raid Levels 0,1, Single Disk,JBOD
Onboard Memory 128 MB DDR2 533
Connector Type Discrete
BBU Support No

Features
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.
Up to 512MB DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection. (see table below)
32 pooled DMA channels.
Complete configuration management suite.
- 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM2) – easy to use BIOS configuration tool.
- 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM2) – 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.
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.