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S.M.A.R.T monitoring hard drive status for reliability
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Staggered Spinup with user selection in BIOS
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(MAID) spin down drives when array is idle
Array Monitors, Alerts and Indicators
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SMTP for email notification
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Hardware Monitor function(RocketRAID 3560)
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Alarm / Buzzer alerts for drive failure
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SAF-TE (I2C) support
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SGPIO enclosure management (RocketRAID 3530/3540/3560)
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SNMP for remote management
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Ethernet port for OBM (Out of Band Managment)
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NTP (Network Time Protocol)
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Intelli-VRM. (Intelligent Virtual RAID Managment)
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SHI – Storage Health Inspector (S.M.A.R.T. and disk maintenance)
RAID Management
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TerabyteSaver™ and TerabyteGuard™ for Data Protection and Reliability
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Firmware update in the Operating System
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Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS
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API library for customizing AP
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Command Line Interface (CLI)
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Web browser-base RAID management software
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Disk scrubbing to prevent degraded RAID arrays
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Bad sector repair and re-mapping to reduce dropped drives
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ATA pass-through mode support
Operating System Support
• Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 (32 and 64-bit versions)
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Linux
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FreeBSD
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Mac OS X 10.4.x & 10.5.x
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GPL licensed driver into Linux Kernel 2.6.25
Congratulations
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