Description The Escalade 8506 series features the only 12 and 8 port SATA RAID controllers available on the market today, with support for up to 3TB of storage per controller (dependent on drive capacity, 2TB per array maximum.). The Escalade 8506-8 and 8506-12 are ideal for application environments where high levels of sustained reads and writes are required such as NAS/SAN, enterprise storage, web servers, security systems, and video streaming. For 2U rackmount servers, 3ware offers the low-profile 4-port Escalade 8506-4LP. All 3ware products incorporate an on-board processor for true hardware RAID performance. The Escalade 8506 offers the most popular Serial ATA RAID 5 as well as Levels 0,1,10 and JBOD.
