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3ware 8506-4LP PCI SATA Controller Card

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RAID 0/1/5/10 JBOD
4 x SATA 150 Internal Connectors

When the challenge is to increase storage capacity while controlling costs, one Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controller gives IT professionals what they need to accomplish both goals - the 3ware 8506-4LP RAID controllers from 3ware. With the ability to support up to 4 controllers per system.

AMCC Storage 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 3ware 8506-4LP offers the most popular Serial ATA RAID 5 as well as Levels 0,1,10 and JBOD.

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Model

Brand: 3ware

Model: 8506-4LP

Specifications

Type: SATA

Internal Connectors: 4 x SATA 150

Interface: PCI

RAID: RAID 0/1/5/10 JBOD

Operating Systems Supported: Win2K/XP/2003,Red Hat8/9,SuSE8.x, FreeBSD4.8

Features

Features: PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit/66MHz bus master;
Hot-swap and hot-spare capability;
Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance

Manufacturer Warranty

Parts: 3 years limited

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Warranty

Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Limited Warranty period (labor): 0 day

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N/A 11/27/2005 6:06:00 PM Tech Level: 0/5 Ownership: 0/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5fantastc Comments: excellent card! the previous guy must be smoking something or he is trying to use this card with novell OES on NSS filesystem, in that case it does only get 2MBs write... until they patch it. if u want to use the specs im talking about use REISER until they patch NSS on OES. anyways on windows works great. got 4 x 300gb maxtors in raid 5 for 900gb storage real fast - copying at about 40-45 MB/s off a gigabit connection recogmend to anyone 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
rusty 10/11/2005 2:44:06 PM Tech Level: 0/5 Ownership: 0/5	Rating: 1/5Incredibly slow write performance Comments: This card is useless because the write performance is so slow. When a generic ATA drive out performs your RAID drive, then what's the point! I've used this on 3 systems, with different configs, 2 WIndows Server environments and one Red Hat machine. Write performance in both RAID 1 and RAID 5 is about 1/10th the speed of write performance on a normal ATA or SATA drive connected to the motherboard. Avoid if you care at all about performance. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 9/19/2005 2:34:27 PM Tech Level: 0/5 Ownership: 0/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5 Comments: Great card, great service! I was expecting greatness from this and I received it. Virtually plug and play with FreeBSD. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 8/17/2005 7:35:07 PM Tech Level: 0/5 Ownership: 0/5	Rating: 5/5 Comments: nice card, pricey.... but at least I'm not running software RAID anymore Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 5/26/2004 10:47:58 PM Tech Level: 0/5 Ownership: 0/5	Rating: 5/5Great Value Comments: This card is a wonderful value for the money. Performance is better in RAID 5 than the Adaptec 2410SA and the price is very reasonable, especially if you are familiar with SCSI pricing for a good RAID card. This was in fact my first experience with SATA and I was very pleased with the slim profile the cables provide. Having such thin and narrow cables makes dedicating a channel to each drive so much easier than with PATA cables, which becomes very cumbersome. I run the card under Fedora Core 1 and am very pleased with its performance. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 3/29/2004 9:12:19 AM Tech Level: 0/5 Ownership: 0/5	Rating: 5/5Works great with Linux Comments: True hardware RAID in SuSe 9.0 right out of the box. Supported by the setup CD/DVD without a driver disk and has performed very well. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
dratner 3/16/2004 2:04:44 PM Tech Level: 0/5 Ownership: 0/5	Rating: 5/5Fun with Linux Comments: I've been using this card on a Fedora Core 1 system for a while. It's a great alternative to SCSI both because the drives are cheaper (isn't the I in RAID supposed to be for "inexpensive") and because IDE and SATA interfaces have longer lifecycles than SCSI interfaces on average so getting replacement drives is easier. 3Ware has done a great job with both the engineering of the card and with the software and drivers. The only place they have fallen down is on the documentation, which is abysmal. The downloadable docs on their site are only slightly better. Performance seems to be very good and tests with hot swapping drives and doing background rebuilds have been quite successful. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
2522204 2/9/2004 8:14:35 AM Tech Level: 0/5 Ownership: 0/5	Rating: 5/5Expensive, but hard to beat Comments: We used this to build a 1,000GB raid (RAID 0, Striping) with 250GB WD drives. Everything has been working great. I tried to benchmark it but apparantly every benchmarking tool for Windows cost money sigh Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!