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9690SA-8I
9690SA-8E
9690SA-4I4E
Form Factor
Low profile
Low profile
Low profile
SAS Ports
8 Internal
8 External
4 Internal / 4 External
PCI Express
x8
x8
x8
RAID Levels
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,
Single Disk
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,
Single Disk
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,
Single Disk
Onboard Memory
512MB DDR2 533
512MB DDR2 533
512MB DDR2 533
Connector Type
SFF-8087 mini-SAS
SFF-8088 mini-SAS
SFF-8087/SFF-8088 mini-SAS
BBU with Remote Battery Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
3ware 9690SA Series Selection Guide
www.3ware.com
www.amcc.com
Sales Offices for 3ware Products:
USA:
+1-877-883-9273
+1-408-542-8771
Europe:
+44-1494-890700
Asia/Pacific: +65-6826-3381
China:
+86-10-6581-4916
S P E C I F I C A T I O N S
3ware 9690SA
3ware 9690SA 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
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 via I
2
C and SES 2.0
• 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, 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
• Dimensions
9690SA-4I4E
7.25”L x 2.73”H (19.30cm L x 6.93cm H)
9690SA-8I 7.60”L x 2.73”H (19.30cm L x 6.93cm H)
9690SA-8E 7.80”L x 2.73”H (19.80cm L x 6.93cm H)
Service and Support
• 3-year warranty
• Support via the web at
www.3ware.com/support
• For latest motherboard and hard drive compatibility listing go to:
www.3ware.com/products//sys_compatibility.asp
Accessories
• BBU-MODULE-04 Battery Backup Unit
• BATT-SPARE-02 Replacement battery for BBU-MODULE-04
• CBL-SFF8087-05M (0.5m Multi-lane internal cable)
• CBL-SFF8087-06M (0.6m Multi-lane internal cable)
• CBL-SFF8088SAS-10M (Universal key external cable, 1m)
• CBL-SFF8088SAS-20M (Universal key external cable, 2m)
• CBL-SFF8088IB-10M (Legacy external cable, 1m)
• CBL-SFF8088IB-20M (Legacy external cable, 2m)
