LSI 3WARE SAS RAID Controller 9690SA-4I

3ware 9690SA Specifications

3ware 9690SA Features

n 8th-generation StorSwitch™ non-blocking switched architecture

n On-board I/O RISC processor and RAID offload provides true

hardware RAID

– SCSI device driver model to take advantage of

SAS or inexpensive Serial ATA drives

- Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance of your OS

- Variable stripe size for performance tuning by application

- Support for greater than 2TB volumes

- 512MB DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection

- 128 max disk drives via SAS expanders

- Complete configuration management suite:

– 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) – easy to use BIOS configuration tool

– 3ware Disk Manager 2 – browser-based management tool

– Command Line Interface (CLI) – scriptable configuration tool

- SNMP support

- SMTP support for email/pager notification

- Staggered drive spin-up support

- Auto carving allows LUNs > 2TB to be divided into multiple units for legacy operating systems limited to 2TB max. per LUN

- Battery Backup Unit (BBU) with remote battery support

- Write journaling for improved performance and data protection against accidental drive removal

-Multiple SAS/SATA RAID sets

- Multiple logical unit sizes and RAID levels on one card

- Hot-swap and hot-spare support for data availability

- Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection

- S.M.A.R.T. disk drive monitoring for reliability

- Emergency Flash Recovery protects against failed firmware upgrade

- Drive activity LED support

- Array/Drive Status and drive identification LED support

- Enclosure management support for SES 2.0 via I2C or in-band signaling

- Drive insertion and removal notification

- Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration

- RoHS 6 of 6 and WEEE compliant

Operating System Support

- Microsoft® Windows® Vista/2003/XP, Mac OSX, 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. For complete OS listing, go to:

www.3ware.com/support/OS-support

3ware 9690SA Specifications

- Low profile form factor

- PCI Express x8 configurations, PCI Express 1.1 compliant

- Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 1.1 specification support

- SATA 2.6 specification support

- BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support

- Operating Temperature: Controller: 0°C to 50°C; BBU: 10°C to 40°C

- Power Requirements: 18W maximum