Data Transfer Rate:
Fulfilling Customer Requirements with Performance and Scalability
The Escalade® 7506 series delivers advanced storage technology and industry leading performance in cost-effective ATA solutions. The 8 port Escalade 7506 controller boast a PCI 66MHz custom ASIC that combines an integrated RISC processor, PCI bridge (64-bit, 66MHz) and XOR RAID engine. Performance is further enhanced with StorSwitch™, 3wares advanced switched RAID architecture.
Supporting up to 3TB of storage per controller (dependent on drive capacity, 2TB per array maximum.) , 3ware offers the only 12 and 8 port ATA RAID controllers available on the market today. These controllers fit the bill with applications where high levels of sustained read and writes are required, such as enterprise storage, NAS/SAN, web servers, near-line backup and archival, and streaming video
Features:
- Supports up to 8 drives with a single PCI card enabling up to 3terabytes of storage
- Ultra ATA/133 interface
StorSwitch point-to-point non-blocking architecture
- PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit/66MHz bus master1
- RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 and JBOD support2
- Highest performance ATA RAID Controller
- On-board processor to provide true hardware-based RAID
- Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance
- BIOS set up utility and 3ware Disk Manager (3DM®) web-based management software
- Hot-swap and hot-spare capability3
- Windows® and Linux® operating systems support
Specifications:
Model: 7506-8
IDE Interface: ATA 133/100
Drives Supported: up to 8
Transfer Rate: Up to 133MB/sec
Form Factor: PCI Full-Length Card
RAID Level: 0,1,10,5,JBOD
PCI Interface: 64-bit, 66Mhz
Supported Operating Systems:
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP/2003
• Red Hat Linux® 7.2, 7.3, 8.0
• SuSE Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0
For complete OS listing, go to: www.3ware.com/support
Warranty:
• 3-year warranty