3ware 9750-16I4E PCIe 2.0 SAS Controller

The 3ware SAS 9750-16i4e controller card provides a new level of reliability, availability, and performance to businesses that are facing storage challenges, particularly in sequential I/O intensive and multi-stream environments. This 3ware controller supports both internal drive storage and external JBOD expansion, while providing a higher standard of data protection and performance with the latest in LSI RAID-on-Chip (ROC) technology. Using the external SAS ports, multiple JBODs can be connected to a server, delivering a scalable and affordable solution for growing storage requirements. Additionally, StreamFusion™+ is designed to deliver breakthroughs in high-load applications and provide enhanced features and functionality in all environments.

Offering data transfer rates of up to 6Gb/s per port, this 3ware SATA+SAS controller provides many new features while also ensuring investment protection for existing SAS and SATA implementations. LSI 3ware delivers unprecedented power in multi-stream RAID environments where performance, redundancy, and data protection are most important.

Highlights

• Sixteen internal SATA+SAS ports
• Four external SATA+SAS ports
• Four mini-SAS SFF8087 x4 connectors
• One mini-SAS SFF8088 x4 connector
• 6Gb/s throughput per port
• LSISAS2108 ROC
  o 800MHz PowerPC®
• Full height (6.6” x 4.376”)
• x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
• 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)
• Optional battery backup unit (direct attach)
• Connect up to 127 SATA and/or SAS devices
• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and Single Disk
• Auto-resume on rebuild
• Auto-resume on reconstruction
• Online Capacity Expansion (OCE)
• Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)
• Global hot spare with revertible hot spare support
  o Automatic rebuild
• Single controller multipathing (failover)
• I/O load balancing
• Comprehensive RAID management suite

Specifications

• Superior performance in multi-stream environments
• Stable performance in a degraded mode
  PCI Express 2.0 provides faster signaling for high-bandwidth applications
• Support for 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS and SATA hard drives for maximum flexibility
• 3ware Management 3DM2 Controller Settings
  o Simplifies creation of RAID volumes
  o Easy and extensive control over maintenance features
• High data availability with up to sixteen point-to-point connections

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