3ware's 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 Intel's Iometer benchmark program on a dual processor Intel Xeon (2.4GHz) system with PhoenixBIOS, 512MBytes system RAM, Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server, the Escalade 9500S-8 66MHz SATA RAID controller and Maxtor 7Y250MQ, 250GB, 7200 RPM drives).
Features & Specifications:
Model: 9500S-12.
Storage Controller Type: RAID.
Storage Controller / Interface Type: PCI 64 / 66 MHz.
Storage Controller Form Factor: Plug-in card.
Cache Buffer Size: 128 MB.
RAID Level: JBOD; RAID 0; RAID 1; RAID 5; RAID 10; RAID 50.
Supported Device: Hard drive; Disk array (RAID).
Storage Controller / Interface Type: Serial ATA-150.
Data Transfer Rate: 150 MBps.
Width: 7.5 Inch.
Depth: 3.9 Inch.
System Requirements / OS Required: FreeBSD; SuSe Linux; Red Hat Linux; Microsoft Windows XP; Microsoft Windows 2000; Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
Availability: This is a drop ship item. The actual stock level is not under our control and is subject to change without notice. We will contact our customers in case of any problems. For drop shipped items, we currently do not provide shipping confirmation, online tracking or online order status. Please allow 1-3 business days before order is shipped. A longer delay may occur for international, non-continental USA, and APO orders since most vendors do not ship via USPS. We have to receive the goods and then re-ship them. If this item is ordered together with other products, this item may be shipped and arrive separately.
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