3ware 9750-4I PCIe 2.0 SAS Controller

This 3ware controller, great for inside-the-box connectivity, employs the latest in LSI RAID-on-Chip (ROC) technology and provides a higher standard of data protection and performance. Additionally, StreamFusion+ can 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 complete 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

• Superior performance in multi-stream environments
• 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
• Simplifies creation of RAID volumes
• Easy and extensive control over maintenance features
• Low-profile MD2 form factor for space-limited 1U and 2U environments

Specifications

• Four internal SATA+SAS ports
• One mini-SAS SFF-8087 x4 connectors
• 6Gb/s throughput per port
• LSISAS2108 ROC
• 800MHz PowerPC
• Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6" X 2.536")
• x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
• 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)
• Optional battery backup unit (direct attach)
• Connect up to 96 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
• Automatic rebuild
• Single controller multipathing (failover)
• I/O load balancing
• Comprehensive RAID management suite

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