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Highlights
- 4-bay SATA enclosure for multiple terabytes of desktop storage
- True hardware RAID protection for all your valuable data
- RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
- Battery backup support
- StorSwitch™ non-blocking switch fabric for maximum controller throughput
- StreamFusion optimizes RAID 5 disk accesses to maximize application performance under heavy loads
- Fault indication, status LEDs
- Support for hot swappable drives
- Complete RAID management and configuration suite
3ware Sidecar Features
- True hardware RAID
- RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
- Exclusive StorSwitch™ high performance architecture
- Up to 3TB capacity*
- 128MB DDR2 400 memory with ECC protection
- Complete configuration management suite
- 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2)
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Hot-swap and hot-spare support for easy maintenance
- Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection
- S.M.A.R.T. disk drive monitoring for reliability
- Front panel LED status indicators
- Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration
- Drive insertion and removal notification
- RoHS compliant (lead free)
*Using easily sourced 750GB SATA drives (not included)
3ware Sidecar Minimum System Requirements
- PC workstation, or Apple Mac Pro, or Power Mac G5
- Available PCI Express x4 slot
- Apple Mac G5 OS X (10.4. 6 or higher),
Mac Pro OS X (version 10.4.8 or higher) Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Fedora Linux,
2.4 Linux kernel, 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD; 32/64-bit driver support for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD
Note: Power Mac G5 with PCI-X is not supported
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"The Macintosh storage market has been largely ignored by the
major storage players. AMCC's entry into the Macintosh storage market
will be welcomed by Mac users who require enterprise like functionality
with greater storage performance and capacity for applications such as
digital video capture, post-production and graphics."
-- Greg Schulz, founder and storage consultant at StorageIO
"It's about time the Mac market has access to this level of
storage performance, capacity and protection. We produce a lot of
award-winning video and audio. Our work requires RAID controllers that
can support a sustained high throughput, reliable uptime and
considerable storage capacity. AMCC has produced a solution that
delivers."
-- Alan Giorgi, operating systems analyst and systems
administrator for San Francisco State University's College of Creative
Arts
"I've had the opportunity to evaluate AMCC's technology for
real-time audio editing, and I'm impressed with how it enables editing
and production performance that was previously unattainable by other
solutions. As clients come in, sometimes I'll have 12-hour recording
sessions, and you don't always think to back up or copy your data. I've
had cases at the end of the day where the hard drive just fails. With
the 3ware Sidecar, not only do I get improved throughput, but if I'm
recording and a drive fails, I don't lose any data, so it saves my time
and clients' time and definitely saves a lot of money."
--Independent music producer Stephen Burich
