CONTROLLERS

Controller Primary Interface : Serial ATA
Type Slot/Interface : 64bit/66MHz PCI 2.2
Data Transfer Rate : 400 MB/s
Number of Channels : 12
RAID Levels : RAID 0,1,10,5,50 & JBOD
Memory : 128 MB of ECC protected SDRAM, upgradable to 1 GB

3wares advanced switched RAID architecture - StorSwitch unleashes the power of Serial ATA (SATA), delivering the highest hardware RAID performance in its class. The Escalade 9500S hardware RAID controllers deliver in excess of 400 Mbytes per second (MB/sec) sustained RAID 5 reads and over 100 MB/sec RAID 5 sequential writes with less than 3% CPU utilization (Tested using Intels Iometer(R) benchmark program on a dual processor Intel(R) Xeon (2.4GHz) system with PhoenixBIOS(R), 512MBytes system RAM, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000 Advanced Server, the Escalade 9500S-8 66MHz SATA RAID controller and Maxtor(R) 7Y250MQ, 250GB, 7200 RPM drives)

Part #: CT3W135