Lindfors System Distribution / AMCC 3ware

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.

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

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	9690SA-8I	9690SA-8E	9690SA-4I4E	9690SA-4I
Form Factor	Low Profile	Low Profile	Low Profile	Low Profile
SAS Ports	8 Internal	8 External	4 Internal / 4 External	4 Internal
Drive Interface	SAS and SATAII	SAS and SATAII	SAS and SATAII	SAS and SATAII
PCI Express	x8	x8	x8	x8
RAID Levels	0,1,5,6,10,50,Single Disk	0,1,5,6,10,50,Single Disk	0,1,5,6,10,50,Single Disk	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-8087mini-SAS	SFF-8088 mini-SAS	SFF-8087/SFF-8088 mini-SAS	SFF -8087 mini-SAS
BBU with Remote Battery Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
External links	http://www.3ware.com/products/sas-9690sa.asp
Drivers	http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp
Cables	http://www.3ware.com/products/cables.asp

SATA II PCI Express with RAID 6

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	9650SE-2LP	9650SE-4LP	9650SE-8LPML	9650SE-12ML
Form Factor	Low Profile	Low Profile	Low Profile	Full Height
Port Count	2 Internal	4 Internal	8 Internal	12 Internal
Drive Interface	SATAII	SATAII	SATAII	SATAII
PCI Express	x1	x4	x4	x8
RAID Levels	0,1, Single Disk,JBOD	0,1,5,10,Single Disk,JBOD	0,1,5,6,10,50,Single Disk, JBOD	0,1,5,6,10,50 Single Disk, JBOD
Onboard Memory	128 MB DDR2 533	256 MB DDR2 533	256 MB DDR2 533	256 MB DDR2 533
Connector Type	Discrete	SFF -8087 mini-SAS	SFF -8087 mini-SAS	SFF -8087 mini-SAS
BBU with Remote Battery Support	No	Yes	Yes	Yes

	9650SE-16ML	9650SE-24M8
Form Factor	Full Height	Full Height
Port Count	16 Internal	24 Internal
Drive Interface	SATAII	SATAII
PCI Express	x8	x8
RAID Levels	0,1,5,6,10,50 Single Disk,JBOD	0,1,5,6,10,50 Single Disk,JBOD
Onboard Memory	256 MB DDR2 533	512 MB DDR2 533
Connector Type	SFF -8087 mini-SAS	M8 mini-SAS
BBU with Remote Battery Support	Yes	Yes
External links	http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata2-9650.asp
Drivers	http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp
Cables	http://www.3ware.com/products/cables.asp

Serial ATA II PCI-X RAID

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	9550SXU-4LP	9550SXU-8LP	9550SXU-12	9550SXU-12MI
Form Factor	Half length /low profile	Half length /low profile	Half length /Full Height	Half length /Full Height
Port Count	4 Internal	8 Internal	12 Internal	12 Internal
Drive Interface	SATAII	SATAII	SATAII	SATAII
PCI-X	64-bit/133MHz	64-bit/133MHz	64-bit/133MHz	64-bit/133MHz
RAID Levels	0,1,5,10,Single Disk,JBOD	0,1,5,10,50, Single Disk,JBOD	0,1,5,10,50, Single Disk,JBOD	0,1,5,10,50, Single Disk,JBOD
Onboard Memory	128 MB DDR2 400	128 MB DDR2 400	256 MB DDR2 400	256 MB DDR2 400
Connector Type	Discrete	Discrete	Discrete	SFF -8470 Infiniband
BBU with Remote Battery Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

	9550SXU-16ML
Form Factor	Full Height
Port Count	16 Internal
Drive Interface	SATAII
PCI-X	64-bit/133MHz
RAID Levels	0,1,5,10,50, Single Disk,JBOD
Onboard Memory	256 MB DDR2 400
Connector Type	SFF -8087 mini-SAS
BBU with Remote Battery Support	Yes
External links	http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata2-9650.asp
Drivers	http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp
Cables	http://www.3ware.com/products/cables.asp

3ware® Sidecar

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AMCC’s 3ware® Sidecar is an external RAID solution which expands the storage capacity of PC workstations and the Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 with advanced PCI Express architecture. The 3ware Sidecar is the only storage choice for the desktop when capacity, performance, data protection, and ease of use are the goals.

Minimum system requirements

• PC workstation, or Apple Mac Pro, or Power Mac G5
• Available PCI Express x4 slot
• Apple Mac G5 OS X (10.4. 6 or higher), Mac Pro OS X (version 10.4.8 or higher) Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, 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

3ware Sidecar

Form Factor PCI Express card

Low Profile

3ware Sidecar Features
• True hardware RAID
• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD
• Exclusive StorSwitch™ high performance architecture
• Up to 3TB capacity*
• 128MB DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection
• Complete configuration management suite
  - 3DM® Scout (Mac only)
  - 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2)
  - Command Line Interface (CLI)
• BBU Support
• Hot-swap and hot-spare support for easy maintenance
• Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection
• S.M.A.R.T. disk drive monitoring for reliability
• Front panel LED status indicators
• Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration
• Drive insertion and removal notification
• RoHS compliant (lead free)
* Using easily sourced 750GB SATA drives (not included)

SAS Ports

4 External

Drive Interface

SAS and SATAII

PCI Express

RAID Levels

0,1,5,10,JBOD

Onboard Memory

256 MB DDR2 533

Connector Type

SFF8088 Ext. miniSAS

BBU with Remote
Battery Support