
Introducing the LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card
2 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.0
• Advanced Content Streaming, a performance feature, provides increased
speeds for streamed data, such as video playback and editing, through
improved algorithms.
• Rapid RAID Recovery increases the speed with which a degraded unit
can be rebuilt. It can also increase the speed of verification or
initialization that may occur in the event of an unclean shutdown.
• Improved and simplified auto-verification and scheduling to help insure
your RAID units are verified on a regular basis.
• Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to help trouble-shoot
performance issues.
• Simultaneous RAID 6 parity generation to maximize RAID 6
performance
• StreamFusion™ optimizes RAID 5 and RAID 6 disk accesses to
maximize application performance under heavy loads
• StorSave™ BBU with write journaling optimizes data protection and
performance
• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk
• With the 9750 models:
• PCI Express
®
x8 Gen 2.0
• Ability to have SAS and/or SATA drives on the same controller (see
“Drive Requirements” on page 3)
• Connectivity with up to 96 single-ported drives or 48 dual-ported
drives
• Up to 32 drives in a unit
• Up to 32 active units
System Requirements
3ware 9750 model RAID controllers have the following requirements:
Motherboard and Slot Requirements
A workstation-class or server-class motherboard, with an available PCI
Express x8 or x16 slot that complies with PCIe Gen 2.0 (recommended for
best performance) or PCIe 1.1.
A list of motherboards that have been tested is available at
http://www.lsi.com/channel/support/marketing_resources, through the Data &
Interoperability tab.
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