3Ware RAID Controllers Product Manual

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• 3Ware RAID Controllers, HARDWARE RAID CONTROLLERS 3ware ® Product Guide Winter 2008/2009 AMCC reserves the right to make changes to its products, or to discontinue any product or service without notice, and advises its customers to obtain the latest version of relevant information to verify, before placing orders, that the information being relied upon is current. For the latest 3ware product information, visit www.3ware.com. AMCC is a registered trademark of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. 3ware, 3DM and StorSwitch are registered trademarks of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation in the United States

• 3Ware RAID Controllers, SASSATA 3ware RAID Controllers The Right Tool for the Job 3ware pioneered the way for SATA and we now capitalize on our time-proven serial storage expertise to take users from SCSI to SAS. Most importantly, whether our customers require SAS, SATA or combined SAS/SATA connectivity, 3ware will provide the right tool for the job. Servers Security/ Surveillance Pro Video Super Computing NAS Video On-Demand Pro Audio Disk-to-Disk Backup APPLICATIONS FOR 3WARE CONTROLLERS 1 Advanced RAID features, SAS and SATA II connectivity, and powerful 3ware performance architecture make 3ware controllers ideal for vertical application

• SAS 3ware ® 9690SA High Performance Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID Controllers 3ware pioneered the way for SATA and now capitalizes on time- proven serial storage expertise to take users from parallel SCSI to SAS. The 9690SA seizes the moment to enter the market just as SAS hard drives, expanders and backplanes are more widely available and as en

• 3Ware RAID Controllers, SATA 3ware ® 9650SE High Performance PCI Express to Serial ATA II RAID Controllers The best keeps getting better with red hot RAID 6 AMCC’s3ware9650SESATAIIhardwareRAIDcontrollersdeliverindustry-leading RAID6andRAID5performance,robustfaulttolerance,andmulti-terabytecapacities. APCIExpresshostinterface,Multi-lane ™ connectivity, StorSwitch ™ architecture, and sophisticated SATA II features drive this unrivaled performance. 3ware 9650SE Specications • PCIExpressx1,x4,x8congurations • SerialATAIIadvancedfeatures

• 3Ware RAID Controllers, Multi-lane ™ High-Performance SAS and SATA Cable and Connector System Get Connected via the Multi-lane ™ Expressway AMCC’s award winning Multi-lane design enables highly reliable and stream- lined enterprise-class SAS and SATA storage solutions by greatly reducing the number of cables needed to connect controllers, backplanes, and standard SAS/SATA drives. The Multi-lane SATA cable/connection system is fast, secure, simple, and clutter free. It combines the RAID controller’s multiple SAS/SATA ports into singlelockedconnections.Multiple3Gb/slanesofSAS/SATAtrac

• 3Ware RAID Controllers, Controller Connector to Connector Options Cable P/N Options Cable Description Where Used To Controller To Drives / Backplane 3ware 9690SA SAS/SATA RAID Controllers 9690SA-8I SFF-8087 SFF-8087 CBL-SFF8087-05M 0.5 meter cable Connects the controller’s SFF-8087 Multi-lane connector(s) to the backplane’s Multi-lane SFF-8087 connector(s) CBL-SFF8087-06M 0.6 meter cable SFF-8087 SFF-8482 CBL-SAS8087OCF-06M 0.6 meter forward breakout cable Connects the controller’s SFF-8087 Multi-lane connector(s) to up to four individual SAS or SATA drives; includes individual drive power connectors SFF-8087 Discrete CBL-SFF8087OCF-05M 0.5 meter forwar

• 3Ware RAID Controllers, Controller Connector to Connector Options Cable P/N Options Cable Description Where Used To Controller To Drives / Backplane 9550SXU-4LP, -8LP, -12 Discrete Discrete CBL-SATA-39 39”(1m) standard, discrete, point-to-point SATA cable Connects the controller’s discrete SATA port(s) to the drives’ or backplane’s discrete SATA connector(s) Discrete SFF-8087 CBL-SFF8087OCR-05M 0.5 meter reverse breakout cable Connects the controller’s discrete SATA port(s) to the backplane’s SFF-8087 Multi-lane connectors CBL-SFF8087OCR-06M 0.6 meter reverse breakout cable CBL-SFF8087OCR-10M 1.0 meter reverse

• 3Ware RAID Controllers, BBU Availability Features • Maximumreliabilitywithcachedwritedataprotection • MissingArrayDetection • WriteJournaling • DynamicSectorRepair • DrivePower-OnResetDetection • ExtensiveDriveTimeoutRecovery • OutofBandSignalingRetry • Upto72hoursofdataprotectionintheeventof power failure Battery Mounting Option • BatteryattachesdirectlytotheBBUControlModule • TheBBUControlmodulemountsdirectlytothe RAID controller Compatible RAID Controllers

• Putting the Pieces Together Advanced 3ware RAID Features and Performance Architecture StorSwitch ™ maximizes controller throughput — StorSwitch is a unique non-blocking switch fabric architecture that allows 3ware controllers to concurrently communicate to all attached SATA drivesthroughapoolof32directmemoryaccess(DMA)channelsforunp

• 3Ware RAID Controllers, Red Hot RAID 6 The fastest RAID 6 available RAID 6 eliminates the risk of data loss if a second hard disk drive fails while the RAID array is rebuilding. In a 3ware RAID 6 system, two sets of parity are calculated, written, and rotated across all the drives. ThissecondsimultaneousP+Qparitycalculationallowsthearray to survive up to two drive failures without losing data, for significantly improvedfaulttolerance.RAID6-enabled9690SAand�

• 3Ware RAID Controllers, 3ware 8006 PCI-to-Serial ATA Hardware RAID Controller Model Number Host Interface Ports RAID Levels Controller Connector Footprint RoHS 8006-2LP 64-bit/66MHz 2 0, 1, JBOD Discrete Low profile 5/6 3ware Controller Specifications Operating Systems Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Fedora Linux, 2.4 Linux kernel, 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD, 32/64-bit support, Mac OS X (10.4.6 and above) For complete OS listing, go to: www.3ware.com/support/OS-support PCI Compliance PCI Express 1.1, PCI-X 1.0b, and PCI 2.3 compliant (64-bit/133/100/66MHz bus master) Serial Interfac

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