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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 Specifications

•  PCI Express x1, x4, x8 configurations
•  Serial ATA II advanced features 
 

— 3Gb/s transfer speed

 

— Native Command Queuing

•  Low profile form factor 
 

— 2, 4, 8-port configurations

•  Full height form factor
 

— 12, 16, 24-port configurations

•  RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, Single Disk, JBOD 

(see chart below)

•  RoHS and WEEE compliant

3ware 9650SE Series Selection Guide

9650SE-2LP

9650SE-4LPML

9650SE-4LPME

9650SE-8LPML

9650SE-12ML

9650SE-16ML

9650SE-24M8

Form Factor

Low profile

Low profile

Low profile

Low profile

Full height

Full height

Full height

Port Count

2

4

4

8

12

16

24

PCI Express Lanes

1

4

4

4

8

8

8

RAID Levels

0, 1, Single Disk, JBOD

0, 1, 5, 10,  

Single Disk, JBOD

0, 1, 5, 10,  

JBOD

0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,  

Single Disk, JBOD 

0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 

Single Disk, JBOD

0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, Single 

Disk, JBOD

0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 

Single Disk, JBOD

Onboard Memory

128MB DDR2 533

256MB DDR2 533

256MB DDR2 533

256MB DDR2 533

256MB DDR2 533

256MB DDR2 533

512MB DDR2 533

Connector Type

Discrete

Multi-lane

Multi-lane (external)

Multi-lane

Multi-lane

Multi-lane

Multi-lane

BBU Support

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Summary of Contents for 9550SX 2

Page 1: ...H A R D W A R E R A I D C O N T R O L L E R S 3 w a r e P r o d u c t G u i d e S p r i n g S u m m e r 2 0 0 7...

Page 2: ...2006 3ware Distributors N o r t h A m e r i c a Bell Micro US and Canada www bellmicro com Synnex US and Canada www synnex com D H US www dandh com Hammer www hammerplc com CTT www ctt de TMC www tmc...

Page 3: ...s SATA II connectivity and powerful 3ware performance architecture make 3ware controllers ideal for vertical applications that require the highest levels of sustained write and read performance The co...

Page 4: ...r 12 16 24 port configurations RAID levels 0 1 5 6 10 50 Single Disk JBOD see chart below RoHS and WEEE compliant 3ware 9650SE Series Selection Guide 9650SE 2LP 9650SE 4LPML 9650SE 4LPME 9650SE 8LPML...

Page 5: ...4 8 12 and 16 port configurations RAID levels 0 1 5 10 50 Single Disk and JBOD see chart below RoHS and WEEE compliant 3ware 9550SX Series Selection Guide 9550SXU 4LP 9550SXU 8LP 9550SXU 12 9550SXU 1...

Page 6: ...emory with ECC protection BBU Support Complete configuration management suite 3ware Disk Manager 2 3DM 2 Command Line Interface CLI 4 bay external Serial ATA desktop enclosure Hot swap and hot spare s...

Page 7: ...USB interfaces Data Quantity Movies 3 000 Digital Photos 600 000 Songs 1 000 000 Spreadsheets 30 000 000 How Much is 3TB Movie 1GB Digital Photo 5MB Song 3MB Spreadsheet 100KB 3 0 150 300 450 600 750...

Page 8: ...e locked connection Four 3Gb s lanes of SATA traffic travel through just one cable from the RAID controller to the system backplane or to up to four hard drives with a breakout cable Multi lane Benefi...

Page 9: ...ntroller Model 9550SXU 12MI 3ware order CBL IB 05M 0 5 m CBL IB 10M 1 0 m Discrete SATA Standard point to point SATA cable 3ware Controller Model 9650SE 2LP 9550SXU 4LP 8LP 12 9500S 4LP 8006 2LP 3ware...

Page 10: ...ves or backplane s discrete SATA connector s CBL SFF8087OCF 06M 0 6 meter forward breakout cable CBL SFF8087OCF 10M 1 0 meter forward breakout cable SFF 8087 SFF 8470 CBL SFF8087IB 05M 0 5 meter conve...

Page 11: ...FF 8087 Multi lane connector s CBL SFF8087 06M 0 6 meter cable SFF 8087 Discrete CBL SFF8087OCF 05M 0 5 meter forward breakout cable Connects the controller s SFF 8087 Multi lane connector s to the dr...

Page 12: ...reducing cable count and improves airflow Reliability Convenience RAID 6 On select 3ware 9650SE controllers Two sets of parity are simultaneously calculated written and rotated across all the drives...

Page 13: ...applications are accessing data simultaneously 3ware RAID controllers are not the performance bottleneck as is often the case with software RAID and other hardware RAID controllers Hard Drive Hard Dri...

Page 14: ...AID controllers incorporate onboard processors to deliver true hardware RAID Software RAID schemes use the system s processor exploit host memory compromise reliability and potentially rob the system...

Page 15: ...y following a second drive failure users can rest assured that they are enjoying maximum data protection both in normal and degraded modes And with RAID 6 enabled 3ware controllers RAID 6 will not cri...

Page 16: ...custom hybrid Full height 6 6 3ware 9550SX PCI X to Serial ATA II Hardware RAID Controllers Model Number Host Interface Ports RAID Levels Controller Connector Footprint RoHS 9550SXU 4LP 64 bit 133MHz...

Page 17: ...ID levels remote management alert notifications and more SCSI Features Scatter gather command queuing command reordering elevator seek dynamic sector repair background media scanning and more SATA II...

Page 18: ...lmicro eu com Hammer www hammerplc com CTT www ctt de TMC www tmc uk com A s i a P a c i f i c APT China www apt storage com ASK Japan www ask corp co jp Digicor Australia www digicor com au Epecom Gr...

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