The 3ware® 9690SA-4I SATA+SAS controller delivers accelerated SAS performance, expanded connectivity and greater scalability due to compatibility with industry standard SAS expanders. Each 9690SA SAS controller scales to support 128 SAS and/or SATA devices. Users will also enjoy a unified RAID management interface and software suite which assures a picture perfect configuration experience with every 3ware controller, irrespective of its storage interface
Advanced 3ware RAID architecture and new performance features rocket the 9690SA to RAID 5 and RAID 6 performance heights. With StreamFusion™+ firmware, 3ware’s advanced processes allow for optimized reads and writes in multi-stream environments and superior throughput even in degraded modes to provide a higher standard of data protection and performance. An optional battery backup unit with integrated write journaling and remote battery mounting capability provides added data protection in the event of a power outage. The 3ware 9690SA-4I supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and single disk and has 4 internal mini-SAS ports.
Features
- 8th-generation StorSwitch™ non-blocking switched architecture
- On-board I/O RISC processor and RAID offload provides true hardware RAID — SCSI device driver model to take advantage of SAS or inexpensive SATA 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 and 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 via I2C and SES 2.0
- Drive insertion and removal notification
- Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration
- RoHS 6 of 6 and WEEE compliant