3ware’s advanced switched RAID architecture - StorSwitch™ unleashes the power of Serial ATA (SATA), delivering the highest hardware RAID performance in its class. The 3ware 9500S hardware RAID controllers deliver in excess of 400 Mbytes per second (MB/sec) sustained RAID 5 reads and over 100 MB/sec RAID 5 sequential writes with less than 3% CPU utilization (Tested using Intel’s Iometer(R) benchmark program on a dual processor Intel(R) Xeon (2.4GHz) system with PhoenixBIOS(R), 512MBytes system RAM, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000 Advanced Server, the 3ware 9500S-8 66MHz SATA RAID controller and Maxtor(R) 7Y250MQ, 250GB, 7200 RPM drives)

Integrated Solutions
3ware offers a truly innovative SATA cabling solution for large-scale configurations, where space and airflow are at a premium. The 3ware 9500S Multi-lane (MI) controllers combine a highly reliable, locking cable/connector system that combines four SATA ports into one on the controller side. Available in 12 or 8-port configurations, the 3ware 9500S-MI controllers increase reliability, and simplify ease of installation and routing. Multi-lane controllers require that you use a backplane with multi-lane connectors.

9000 Series DataSheet

• Optimized hardware XOR RAID 5 engine provides true hardware based RAID and intelligent drive management functions
  
• Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, Single Disk (JBOD)
  
• Single array capacity scales to over 3 terabytes per controller (64-bit LBA support)
  
• 128 MB of ECC protected SDRAM, upgradable to 256 MB
  
• Battery Backup Unit (BBU) ready
  
• Online Capacity Expansion ready
  
• StorSwitch point-to-point, non-blocking switched architecture for highest performance
  
• Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance
  
• Variable stripe size for performance tuning by application
  
• Multiple array background initialization for immediate data redundancy
  
• Host controller and drive command queuing for highest performance
  
• Multiple card support (up to 4) within a system for large storage requirements
  
• Multiple logical volumes and RAID levels can exist on one card for maximum configuration flexibility
  
• Legacy and SATA II out of band (OOB) staggered drive spin-up support
  
• 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
  
• SMTP support for email/pager notification
  
• Emergency Flash Recovery protects against power failure during firmware upgrades
  
• Support for drive activity LED
  
• Flexible task scheduling for increased useability
  
• Multi-lane connectors based on the Infiniband SFF-8470 specification
  
• Complete configuration management suite
  
• 3ware BIOS Manager (3BM) - BIOS configuration tool
  
• 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM 2) - browser-based management tool
  
• Command Line Interface (CLI) - scriptable configuration tool

Operating System Support
Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, RedHat® Linux, SuSE® Linux, FreeBSD For complete OS listing, go to: www.3ware.com/support/index.asp