3ware Escalade 6000 Storage Switch

Windows device driver information for 3ware Escalade 6000 Storage Switch

3ware Escalade 6000 Storage Switch has a large drive support with a 48bit LBA support for drives that are larger than 137GB. It features a dynamic sector repair is implemented for RAID 5 and can also work on RAID 1, 10 and 5. The feature allows for the repair of data sectors whenever errors are encountered in a redundant array. It features SMART monitoring that adds monitoring and troubleshooting functionality by automatically checking the health of a disk driver and then reporting any potential problem. It enables the user to take steps that are proactive and thus prevents disk failures that are impending. Whenever it detects a possible failure of a drive it notifies the user by the asynchronous error notification (AEN). It allows for Background Media Scans and Automatic rebuilds to be scheduled within 3DM.

The Background Media can is a feature that does the work of read scanning all disks in an array. For every read errors detected, an error notification is posted. 3ware Escalade 6000 Storage Switch also has an improved customer support diagnostics. For example to assist in diagnosis controller failures, diagnostic data that includes SMART logs can be saved and then emailed to 3ware Customer support. Users of 3ware Escalade 6000 Storage Switch are advised to always use the latest version the devise driver as this will assist them to utilize its functions better and easier. Versions that are old are known to cause conflicts of devices as well as errors in Storage work. One should therefore attempt to update the 3ware Escalade 6000 Storage Switch drivers at least once per every month or even more often. It is highly recommended you run a free registry scan for and 3ware Escalade 6000 Storage Switch errors before installing any driver updates.