LSI 3ware 9690SA, 3ware 9690SA-8I, 3ware 9690SA-8E, 3ware 9690SA-4I4E, 3ware 9690SA-4I Product Brief

Product Brief

Host Data

K E Y F E A T U R E S

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Scalable to 128 SAS and/or

Serial ATA devices

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PCI Express x8 host interface

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Conguration exibility with four

conguration options

– 8 internal ports

– 8 external ports

– 4 internal/four external ports

– 4 internal ports

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SAS, SATA, and SATA II features, including

3Gb/s and NCQ

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512MB DDR2 533 ECC protected memory

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Simultaneous double parity generation

to maximize RAID 6 performance

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StorSwitch™ 8th generation non-blocking

switch fabric for maximum controller

throughput

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StreamFusion optimizes I/O accesses to

maximize application performance under

heavy workloads

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StorSave BBU with write journaling

optimizes data protection and

performance; remote battery support

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Low-prole form factor

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RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and

Single Disk

Disk #1

Disk #2

Disk #3

P1 Parity

Q1 Parity

Block 1

P2 Parity

Block 8

Block 11

Q2 Parity

P3 Parity

Block 12

Block 4

Block 7

Block 10

Striped Data with Distributed Double Parity —

RAID 6: Two sets of parity data, P + Q, are
striped across disks. RAID 6 safeguards against
data loss during rebuild mode by allowing up
to two consecutive drive failures for maximum
fault tolerance.

Disk #4

Block 2

Block 5

Q3 Parity

P4 Parity

Disk #5

Block 3

Block 6

Block 9

Q4 Parity

RAID 6

3ware® 9690SA

High-Performance Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID Controller

The LSI 3ware 9690SA SAS/SATA hardware RAID controllers deliver indus­try-leading RAID 6 and RAID 5 performance, expanded scalability, robust
fault tolerance, and multi-terabyte capacities. A PCI Express host interface,
StorSwitch™ architecture and sophisticated SAS and SATA II features drive
this unrivaled performance.

It’s Time for SAS

3ware pioneered the way for SATA and now
capitalizes on time-proven serial storage
expertise to take users from parallel SCSI to
SAS. The 9690SA seizes the moment to enter
the market just as SAS hard drives, expanders
and backplanes are more widely available and
as enterprise infrastructures align to realize the
potential of Serial Attached SCSI. As SAS makes
inroads into the SCSI market, users will look
to SAS to provide expanded connectivity and
greater scalability and to the 3ware 9690SA for
peace of mind.

Connect, Expand, Protect with SAS

End users will enjoy conguration exibility
with four low prole PCI Express controller
options: eight internal ports, eight external
ports, four internal/four external ports, or four
internal ports. Compatibility with industry
standard SAS expanders will maximize
exibility. Each 9690SA SAS controller scales
to support 128 SAS and/or SATA devices.

Advanced 3ware RAID architecture and SAS,
SATA, 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 9690SA supports
RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk.

The RAID 6 Dierence

RAID 6 eliminates the risk of data loss if a second
hard disk drive fails while the RAID array is
rebuilding. Uniquely, in the 3ware RAID 6
implementation, two sets of parity are simulta­neously calculated, written, and rotated across
all the drives. This second parity calculation
enables the array to survive up to two drive
failures without losing data, signicantly
improving fault tolerance. The 3ware RAID 6
double parity algorithm maximizes RAID 6
throughput, so that the 9690SA controllers
deliver unequaled RAID 6 write performance.

Enterprise-class RAID Storage

SAS is the preferred interface for the direct­attach server space, SCSI’s former mainstay.
SAS is for mission critical applications that
require higher levels of availability and native
expansion. SAS is optimized for the random
performance requirements of the data
center. The 9690SA’s advanced RAID features,
SAS connectivity, and powerful 3ware
performance architecture make it the ideal
SCSI controller replacement.

LSI 3ware 9690SA

3ware 9690SA Specications

3ware 9690SA Features

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8th-generation StorSwitch™ non-blocking switched architecture

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On-board I/O RISC processor and RAID ooad provides true

hardware RAID
– SCSI device driver model to take advantage of
SAS or inexpensive Serial ATA drives

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Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance of your OS

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Variable stripe size for performance tuning

by application

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Support for greater than 2TB volumes

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512MB DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection

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128 max disk drives via SAS expanders

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Complete conguration management suite

– 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) – easy to use BIOS conguration tool
– 3ware Disk Manager 2 – browser-based management tool
– Command Line Interface (CLI) – scriptable conguration tool

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SNMP support

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SMTP support for email/pager notication

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Staggered drive spin-up support

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Auto carving allows LUNs > 2TB to be divided into multiple units

for legacy operating systems limited to 2TB max. per LUN

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Battery Backup Unit (BBU) with remote battery support

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Write journaling for improved performance and data protection

against accidental drive removal

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Multiple SAS/SATA RAID sets

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Multiple logical unit sizes and RAID levels on one card

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Hot-swap and hot-spare support for data availability

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Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection

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S.M.A.R.T. disk drive monitoring for reliability

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Emergency Flash Recovery protects against failed

rmware upgrade

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Drive activity LED support

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Array/Drive Status and drive identication LED support

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Enclosure management support for SES 2.0 via I2C or

in-band signaling

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Drive insertion and removal notication

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Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration

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RoHS 6 of 6 and WEEE compliant

Operating System Support

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Microsoft® Windows® Vista/2003/XP, Mac OSX, 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 Specications

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Low prole form factor

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PCI Express x8 congurations, PCI Express 1.1 compliant

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Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 1.1 specication support

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SATA 2.6 specication support

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BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS

(BIOS boot specication) support

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Operating Temperature

Controller: 0°C to 50°C
BBU: 10°C to 40°C

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Power Requirements: 18W maximum

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Dimensions

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)
9690SA-4I4E: 7.25”L x 2.73”H (19.30cm L x 6.93cm H)
9690SA-4I: 7.60”L x 2.73”H (19.30cm L x 6.93cm H)

Service and Support

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3-year warranty

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Support via the web at www.3ware.com/support

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For latest motherboard and hard drive compatibility listing go to:

www.3ware.com/products//sys_compatibility.asp

Accessories

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BBU-MODULE-04 Battery Backup Unit

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BATT-SPARE-02 Replacement battery for BBU-MODULE-04

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CBL-SFF8087-05M (0.5m Multi-lane internal cable)

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CBL-SFF8087-06M (0.6m Multi-lane internal cable)

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CBL-SFF8088SAS-10M (Universal key external cable, 1m)

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CBL-SFF8088SAS-20M (Universal key external cable, 2m)

Applications for
3ware Controllers

Servers

Security/

Surveillance

Video

Editing

Super

Computing

NAS

Video

On-Demand

Pro Audio

Disk-to-Disk

Backup

3 W A R E 9 6 9 0 S A S E R I E S S E L E C T I O N G U I D E

9690SA-8I 9690SA-8E 9690SA-4I4E 9690SA-4I

Form Factor Low prole Low prole Low prole Low prole

SAS Ports 8 Internal 8 External 4 Internal / 4 External 4 Internal

Drive Interface SATA+SAS SATA+SAS SATA+SAS SATA+SAS

PCI Express x8 x8 x8 x8

RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50,

Single Disk

Onboard Memory 512MB DDR2 533 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 SFF-8087 mini-SAS

BBU with Remote Battery Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

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July 2009

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