MODEL- 9690SA-4I4EKIT     VENDOR- 3WARE/AMCC STORAGE
    
FEATURES- 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID Controller Kit- Single
       PCI Express x8, LOW PROFILE, 8-port (4 internal, 4 external ports)
        SAS/SATA hardware RAID card, with cables.
       AMCC builds on established 3ware SATA RAID leadership to introduce 
        the 3ware 9690SA SAS controller, the new standard in Serial 
        Attached SCSI RAID. As SATA and SAS technologies converge, users 
        look to 3ware SATA for price and performance and to SAS for 
        SAS/SATA connectivity with expansion up to 128 devices. The 3ware 
        9690SA delivers accelerated SAS performance and the flexibility of 
        internal and external connectivity. Whether customers require SAS, 
        SATA, or SAS/SATA connectivity, 3ware will provide the right tool 
        for the job. 
       Users will also enjoy a unified RAID management interface and 
        software suite which assures a picture perfect configuration 
        experience with every 3ware controller, irrespective of its storage 
        interface. 
       Advanced 3ware RAID architecture, SAS and SATA II performance 
        features, including 3Gb/s and NCQ, help rocket the 9690SA to RAID 5 
        and RAID 6 performance heights. An optional Battery Backup Unit 
        with integrated write journaling and remote battery mounting 
        capability provides added data protection in the event of a power 
        outage. The 3ware 9690SA supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 
        and Single Disk.
    Includes 9690SA-4I4E SAS/SATA RAID card, CBL-SFF8088SAS-10M 1m Multi-
      lane SAS cable, CBL-SFF8087-60M 60cm Multi-lane SAS/SATA cable, CD 
      containing drivers, 3DM 2-disk management software and documentation. 
* 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 I2C and SES 2.0 
* Drive insertion and removal notification 
* Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration 
* RoHS 6 of 6 and WEEE compliant 
    
  -- SPECIFICATIONs -----------------------------------
FORM FACTOR  - Low Profile
SAS PORTS    - (4) Internal/(4) External
PCI EXPRESS  - x8
RAID LEVELS  - 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, Single Disk
MEMORY       - 512MB DDR2 533MHz on-board
CONNECTOR    - SFF-8087/SFF-8088 mini-SAS 
MISCELLANEOUS- BBU with Remote Battery support
O/S 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.
DIMENSIONS   - 7.25" L x 2.73" H
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