Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product SIDECAR 3 AMCC
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HARDW ARE RAID CONTROLLERS 3 w a r e ® P roduc t Guide Spring / Summer 2007 AMCC r eser ves the righ t to make changes to its products, or to disc ontinue any product or ser vice without notic e, and.
AMCC Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA T ABLE OF C ONTENTS About 3ware RAID Contr ollers 1 3ware 9650SE 2 3ware 9550SX 2 3ware Sidecar 3 xSA T A vs. eSA T A, Fir ewire and USB 3 Multi-lane Cables and Conn.
About 3war e R AID C ontrollers 3ware RAID controllers and storage solutions deliv er full-featured true hardware RAID t o ser vers, workstations and storage systems. 3war e controllers are available in 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 24-port congurations, and are the most compelling RAID solutions available.
3ware ® 9650SE High Performance PCI Express t o Serial A T A II RAID Controllers The best keeps getting better with r ed hot RAID 6 AMCC’ s 3ware 9650SE SA T A II hardware RAID contr ollers deliver industr y-leading RAID 6 and RAID 5 per f ormance, robust fault tolerance, and multi-terabyt e capacities.
3ware ® 9550SX High Performance PCI- X to Serial A T A II RAID Controllers High Performance PCI- X R AID Solution of Choic e The 3ware 9550SX SA T A II RAID controller delivers performance, robust fault-t olerance, and multi-terabyte capacities.
3ware ® Sidecar High-Performance Hardw are RAID Storage for PC and Apple W orkstations Think Outside the Box The 3ware® Sidecar f eatur ing true har dware RAID is the only external storage choice for PCs , Apple® Mac Pro and P ower Mac® G5 when capacity, performance, data protection, and ease of use are the goals .
Interface Interface Speed xSA T A 12Gb/s (1200MB/s) eSA T A 3Gb/s (300MB/s) Firewir e 800 800Mb/s (80MB/s) Firewir e 400 400Mb/s (40MB/s) USB 2.0 480Mb/s (48MB/s) Note: These interfaces use 8b/10b encoding xSA T A v s.
Multi-lane ™ High-Performance SA T A Cable and C onnec tor S ystem Get Connected via the Multi-lane™ Expressway AMCC’ s award winning Multi-lane design enables highly reliable and streamlined en.
*Breakout cables hav e a Multi-lane connector on one end and discr ete connectors on the other end Note: Cable color may dier from c olors shown above • F or w ard breakout cables have a Multi-la.
3ware C ontroller / Cable Matrix Controller Connector to Connector Options Cable P/N Options Cable Description Where Used T o Controller T o Drives / Backplane 3ware 9650SE Internal RAID Con trollers .
3ware 9550SXU Internal RAID Con trollers 9550SXU-4LP , -8LP , -12 Discrete Discrete CBL-SA TA-39 39” ( 1m ) standard , discrete, point-to-point SA TA cable Connects the contr oller’ s discrete SA TA port(s) to the drives ’ or backplane’ s discrete SA T A connector(s) Discrete SFF-8087 CBL -SFF8087OCR-05M 0.
3ware f eatures and benets StorSwitch ™ Non-blocking switch fabric ar chitec tur e Maximizes con troller throughput by allo wing concurrent c ommunications with all attached SA T A drives through a pool of 32 dir ect memor y access (DM A) channels.
Putting the P ieces T ogether Advanc ed 3ware RAID Fea tures and Performance Archit ec ture StorSwitch ™ maximiz es controller throughput — StorSwitch is a unique non-blocking switch fabric archit.
C ommon R AID L evels RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD Block 10 Block 7 Block 4 P1 Parity Disk #1 Block 11 Block 8 P2 Parity Q1 Parity Disk #2 Block 12 P3 Parity Q2 Parity Block 1 Disk #3 Q4 Parity Block 9 B.
Red Hot RAID 6 The fastest RAID 6 av ailable RAID 6 eliminates the risk of data loss if a second hard disk drive fails while the RAID array is rebuilding. In a 3ware RAID 6 system, two sets of parity are calculated, written, and rotated acr oss all the drives.
3ware 9650SE PCI Express-t o -Serial A TA II Har dware RAID Controllers Model Number Host Interface Ports RAID Levels Contr oller Connector Footprint RoHS 9650SE-2LP PCI Express x1 2 0, 1, Single Disk.
3ware 8006 PCI-to-Serial A TA Hardw are RAID Controller Model Number Host Inter face Ports RAID Lev els Controller Connector Footprint RoHS 8006-2LP 64-bit/66MHz 2 0, 1, Single D isk, JBOD Discrete Low pr ole 5/6 3ware C ontroller Specications Operating Systems Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, F edora Linux, 2.
AMCC Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA T ABLE OF C ONTENTS About 3ware RAID Contr ollers 1 3ware 9650SE 2 3ware 9550SX 2 3ware Sidecar 3 xSA T A vs. eSA T A, Firewir e and USB 3 Multi-lane Cables and Conn.
HARDW ARE RAID CONTROLLERS 3 w a r e ® P roduc t Guide Spring / Summer 2007 AMCC r eser ves the righ t to make changes to its products, or to discontinue any product or service without notice, and ad.
An important point after buying a device AMCC SIDECAR 3 (or even before the purchase) is to read its user manual. We should do this for several simple reasons:
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If you already are a holder of AMCC SIDECAR 3, but have not read the manual yet, you should do it for the reasons described above. You will learn then if you properly used the available features, and whether you have not made any mistakes, which can shorten the lifetime AMCC SIDECAR 3.
However, one of the most important roles played by the user manual is to help in solving problems with AMCC SIDECAR 3. Almost always you will find there Troubleshooting, which are the most frequently occurring failures and malfunctions of the device AMCC SIDECAR 3 along with tips on how to solve them. Even if you fail to solve the problem, the manual will show you a further procedure – contact to the customer service center or the nearest service center
