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Home > Hard Drives & HDD Controllers > Hard Drive Controller Cards for SAS Serial Attached SCSI / RAID > AMCC / 3Ware 9690SA-8E-KIT 8-Port SAS External RAID PCI-Express X16 512MB Low Profile Controller Card: 9690SA-8E-KIT (Retail)

AMCC / 3Ware 9690SA-8E-KIT 8-Port SAS External RAID PCI-Express X16 512MB Low Profile Controller Card: 9690SA-8E-KIT (Retail)

Features:

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
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 (3DM2) � 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
Remote Battery Backup Unit (BBU) 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 compliant
Low profile form factor
PCI Express x8 configurations, PCI Express 1.1 compliant
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 1.1 specification support
SATA 2.6 specification support
BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support

Product Specification::
Brand	AMCC/3Ware
Model	9690SA-8E
Type	Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
External Ports	8088 mini-SAS
Interface	PCI-Express x8
Cache Memory	512MB DDR2 533
RAID	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and Single Disk
Operating Systems Supported	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	7.3" x 2.7"
Warranty	http://www.xpcgear.com/warranty.html

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