Chapter 1. Introducing The 3Ware® Sas/Sata Raid Controller; Highlights Of The 9.5.1 Release - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Introducing the 3ware
SATA RAID Controller

Highlights of the 9.5.1 Release

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AMCC 3ware RAID controllers deliver full-featured, true hardware RAID to
servers and workstations. AMCC's RAID controllers offer Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces. Combined with an advanced
RAID management feature-set that includes web-based, command-based, and
API (application programming interface) software components, AMCC
3ware controllers provide compelling RAID solutions.
This section introduces the features and concepts of AMCC 3ware RAID
controllers. It is organized into the following topics:
• Highlights of the 9.5.1 Release
• System Requirements
• Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels
• 3ware Tools for Configuration and Management
• Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features
Version 9.5.1 of the AMCC RAID Software and Firmware provides the
following features and benefits to the 3ware 9650SE and 9690SA model
RAID controllers.
• Advanced Content Streaming, a new performance feature, provides
increased speeds for streamed data, such as video playback and editing,
through improved algorithms.
• Rapid RAID Recovery increases the speed with which a redundant unit
can be made redundant again when a rebuild is required. It can also
increase the speed of verification or initialization that may occur in the
event of an unclean shutdown.
• Improved and simplified auto-verification and scheduling to help insure
your RAID units are verified on a regular basis.
• Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to help trouble-shoot
performance issues.
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