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LSI
3Ware 9650SE-16ML
and 9690SA-8I RAID CONTROLLERS
LSI 3Ware 9690SA-8I
Next, we have the 9690SA-8I, one of LSI's first SAS
RAID controller offerings:
From the LSI
Website:
LSI 3Ware 9690SA-8I Series Selection Guide
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9690SA-8I-8I |
9690SA-8I-8E |
9690SA-8I-4I4E |
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Form Factor |
Low Profile |
Low Profile |
Low Profile
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| SAS Ports |
8 Internal |
8 External |
4 Internal / 4
External |
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PCI Express
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x8 |
x8 |
x8 |
| Raid Levels |
0,1,5,6,10,50,Single Disk
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0,1,5,6,10,50,Single Disk |
0,1,5,6,10,50,Single Disk |
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Onboard Memory |
512MB DDR2 533 |
512MB DDR2 533
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512MB DDR2 533
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Connector Type |
SFF-8087mini-SAS |
SFF-8088
mini-SAS |
SFF-8087/SFF-8088 mini-SAS |
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BBU with
Remote Battery Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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LSI 3Ware 9690SA-8I 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
- 512MB DDR2 533 memory with ECC
protection
- 128 max disk drives via SAS
expanders
- Complete configuration management
suite
— LSI 3Ware BIOS Manager (3BM) - easy to use
BIOS configuration tool
— LSI 3Ware Disk Manager 2 - 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
- Battery Backup Unit (BBU) with
remote battery 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 6 of 6 and WEEE compliant
Operating System
Support
Microsoft® Windows® Vista/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. For complete OS listing,
Go to:
www.LSI 3Ware.com/support/OS-Support.asp |
The 9690SA-8I is a
low-profile card, with two multi-lane mini-SAS
connectors. Not much to this card, most likely
because it is the first-generation SAS-capable card
made by LSI. Perhaps future siblings will
sport memory slots and battery back-up units.
Also, the same 3DM2 GUI is used to configure this
card from within Windows.
Now we show the results.
The first batch are based on SATA HDDs, while the
second batch use SAS 15k RPM HDDs:
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-0, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-0, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-0, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-0, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-0, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-0, 256k stripe
2x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-1
2x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-1
2x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-1
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-5, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-5, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-5, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-5, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-5, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-5, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-6
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-6
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-6
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-10, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-10, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-10, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-10, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-10, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-10, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-50, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-50, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-50, 16k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0, 8MB Zones,
RAID-50, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-50, 256k stripe
8x SATA HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-50, 256k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
8MB Zones,
RAID-0, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-0, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-0, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
8MB Zones,
RAID-0, 256k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-0, 256k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-0, 256k stripe
2x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
8MB Zones, RAID-1
2x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-1
2x SAS HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-1
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
8MB Zones,
RAID-5, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-5, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-5, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
8MB Zones,
RAID-5, 256k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-5, 256k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-5, 256k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
8MB Zones,
RAID-10, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
8MB Zones,
RAID-10, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-10, 16k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
8MB Zones,
RAID-10, 256k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: HDTach 3.0.1.0,
32MB Zones,
RAID-10, 256k stripe
4x SAS HDDs: ATTO Disk
Benchmark, RAID-10, 256k stripe
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