Escalade® 8000 Series 
High Capacity, Best Value Hardware RAID 

When the challenge is to increase storage capacity while controlling costs, one Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controller family gives IT professionals what they need to accomplish both goals - the Escalade 8000 Series RAID controllers from 3ware. With the ability to support up to 4 controllers per system, the Escalade 8000 Series can scale capacity to over 12 TB (250 GB x 12 port x 4 controllers/system). 

3ware combines an advanced non-blocking switched fabric architecture StorSwitch, with SATA drives to deliver a highly scalable hardware RAID storage solution. Each controller boasts a PCI 66MHz custom ASIC that combines an integrated RISC processor, PCI bridge (64-bit, 66MHz) and XOR RAID engine. The Escalade 8506 offers the most popular Serial ATA RAID 5 as well as Levels 0,1,10 and JBOD.

Escalade® 8000 Series:

• Supports up to 12 TB of storage (dependent on drive capacity)
• Up to 4 cards supported within a system
• Maximum of 2 TB per RAID array
• StorSwitch point-to-point, non-blocking architecture
• Optimized hardware XOR RAID 5 engine provides true hardware based RAID and intelligent drive management functions
• SCSI device driver model to take advantage of the benefits of SCSI using inexpensive ATA drives
• Remote browser 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) utility with password security for network management of storage arrays
• SMTP support for email/pager notification
• Easy-to-configure arrays from BIOS; 3DM or CLI utilities
• Staggered spin-up to minimize in-rush current at power up
• Multiple logical volumes and RAID levels can exist on one card for maximum configuration flexibility
• 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
• 2 levels of administrator access to 3DM for added security
• Multi-lane connectors based on the Infiniband SFF-8470 specification