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  • Page 1

    HARDW ARE RAID CONTROLLERS 3 w a r e ® P roduc t Guide Spring / Summer 2007 AMCC r eser ves the righ t to make changes to its products, or to disc ontinue any product or ser vice without notic e, and advises its customers to obtain the latest v ersion of relevant information t o verify , before placing orders, that the information being relied upo[...]

  • Page 2

    AMCC Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA T ABLE OF C ONTENTS About 3ware RAID Contr ollers 1 3ware 9650SE 2 3ware 9550SX 2 3ware Sidecar 3 xSA T A vs. eSA T A, Fir ewire and USB 3 Multi-lane Cables and Connectors 4 3ware Contr oller/Cable Matrix 5 3ware F eatures and Benets 6 Putting the Piec es T ogether 6 Common RAID Levels 7 Hardware vs Software RA[...]

  • Page 3

    About 3war e R AID C ontrollers 3ware RAID controllers and storage solutions deliv er full-featured true hardware RAID t o ser vers, workstations and storage systems. 3war e controllers are available in 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 24-port congurations, and are the most compelling RAID solutions available. Advanced RAID featur es, SA T A II connectivity[...]

  • Page 4

    3ware ® 9650SE High Performance PCI Express t o Serial A T A II RAID Controllers The best keeps getting better with r ed hot RAID 6 AMCC’ s 3ware 9650SE SA T A II hardware RAID contr ollers deliver industr y-leading RAID 6 and RAID 5 per f ormance, robust fault tolerance, and multi-terabyt e capacities. A PCI Express host interface, Multi-lane ?[...]

  • Page 5

    3ware ® 9550SX High Performance PCI- X to Serial A T A II RAID Controllers High Performance PCI- X R AID Solution of Choic e The 3ware 9550SX SA T A II RAID controller delivers performance, robust fault-t olerance, and multi-terabyte capacities. C ombined with an advanced RAID management feature set that includes w eb -based , command-based, and A[...]

  • Page 6

    3ware ® Sidecar High-Performance Hardw are RAID Storage for PC and Apple W orkstations Think Outside the Box The 3ware® Sidecar f eatur ing true har dware RAID is the only external storage choice for PCs , Apple® Mac Pro and P ower Mac® G5 when capacity, performance, data protection, and ease of use are the goals . Broad OS support including Ma[...]

  • Page 7

    Interface Interface Speed xSA T A 12Gb/s (1200MB/s) eSA T A 3Gb/s (300MB/s) Firewir e 800 800Mb/s (80MB/s) Firewir e 400 400Mb/s (40MB/s) USB 2.0 480Mb/s (48MB/s) Note: These interfaces use 8b/10b encoding xSA T A v s. eSA T A, F irewire and USB xSA T A oers signicantly faster transfer speeds , better scalability , and improved cabling option[...]

  • Page 8

    Multi-lane ™ High-Performance SA T A Cable and C onnec tor S ystem Get Connected via the Multi-lane™ Expressway AMCC’ s award winning Multi-lane design enables highly reliable and streamlined enterprise -class SA T A storage solutions by greatly reducing the number of cables needed to connect controllers, backplanes, and standard SA T A dr iv[...]

  • Page 9

    *Breakout cables hav e a Multi-lane connector on one end and discr ete connectors on the other end Note: Cable color may dier from c olors shown above • F or w ard breakout cables have a Multi-lane connector on the c ontroller end and discrete c onnec t ors to the drives • Rev erse breakout cables have discrete connectors on the contr oller [...]

  • Page 10

    3ware C ontroller / Cable Matrix Controller Connector to Connector Options Cable P/N Options Cable Description Where Used T o Controller T o Drives / Backplane 3ware 9650SE Internal RAID Con trollers 9650SE-2LP Discrete Discr ete CBL -SA T A-39 39” (1m) standard, discr ete, point-to-point SA TA cable Connects a contr oller’ s discrete SA TA por[...]

  • Page 11

    3ware 9550SXU Internal RAID Con trollers 9550SXU-4LP , -8LP , -12 Discrete Discrete CBL-SA TA-39 39” ( 1m ) standard , discrete, point-to-point SA TA cable Connects the contr oller’ s discrete SA TA port(s) to the drives ’ or backplane’ s discrete SA T A connector(s) Discrete SFF-8087 CBL -SFF8087OCR-05M 0.5 meter rev erse breakout cable Co[...]

  • Page 12

    3ware f eatures and benets StorSwitch ™ Non-blocking switch fabric ar chitec tur e Maximizes con troller throughput by allo wing concurrent c ommunications with all attached SA T A drives through a pool of 32 dir ect memor y access (DM A) channels. Performance StorSave Po wer ful r eliability enhancements Achieves unma tched data prot ec tion [...]

  • Page 13

    Putting the P ieces T ogether Advanc ed 3ware RAID Fea tures and Performance Archit ec ture StorSwitch ™ maximiz es controller throughput — StorSwitch is a unique non-blocking switch fabric architecture that allows 3ware controllers to concurrently communicat e to all attached SA T A drives through a pool of 32 direct memory access (DMA) channe[...]

  • Page 14

    C ommon R AID L evels RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD Block 10 Block 7 Block 4 P1 Parity Disk #1 Block 11 Block 8 P2 Parity Q1 Parity Disk #2 Block 12 P3 Parity Q2 Parity Block 1 Disk #3 Q4 Parity Block 9 Block 6 Block 3 Disk #5 Striped Data with Distributed Double Parity — RAID 6 Host Data P4 Parity Q3 Parity Block 5 Block 2 Disk #4 RAID 0 “Striping[...]

  • Page 15

    Red Hot RAID 6 The fastest RAID 6 av ailable 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 acr oss all the drives. This second simultaneous P + Q parity calculation allows the array to survive up to two d[...]

  • Page 16

    3ware 9650SE PCI Express-t o -Serial A TA II Har dware RAID Controllers Model Number Host Interface Ports RAID Levels Contr oller Connector Footprint RoHS 9650SE-2LP PCI Express x1 2 0, 1, Single Disk, JBOD Discrete Low pr ole 6/6 9650SE-4LPML PCI Express x4 4 0, 1, 5, 10, Single Disk, JBOD Multi-lane (SFF-8087) Low pr ole 6/6 9650SE-4LPME PC[...]

  • Page 17

    3ware 8006 PCI-to-Serial A TA Hardw are RAID Controller Model Number Host Inter face Ports RAID Lev els Controller Connector Footprint RoHS 8006-2LP 64-bit/66MHz 2 0, 1, Single D isk, JBOD Discrete Low pr ole 5/6 3ware C ontroller Specications Operating Systems Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, F edora Linux, 2.4 [...]

  • Page 18

    AMCC Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA T ABLE OF C ONTENTS About 3ware RAID Contr ollers 1 3ware 9650SE 2 3ware 9550SX 2 3ware Sidecar 3 xSA T A vs. eSA T A, Firewir e and USB 3 Multi-lane Cables and Connectors 4 3ware Contr oller/Cable Matrix 5 3ware F eatures and Benets 6 Putting the Piec es T ogether 6 Common RAID Levels 7 Hardware vs Software RA[...]

  • Page 19

    HARDW ARE RAID CONTROLLERS 3 w a r e ® P roduc t Guide Spring / Summer 2007 AMCC r eser ves the righ t to make changes to its products, or to discontinue any product or service without notice, and advises its customers to obtain the latest v ersion of relevant information to v erify , befor e placing orders, that the information being relied upon [...]