Avago Technologies 3ware SAS 9750-16i4e - Manual (Page 14)

Chapter 1. Introducing the LSI 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card
2 3ware SATA+SAS RAID Controller Card Software User Guide, Version 10.2
• Updated 3ware firmware.
• Updated 3DM2 and CLI software.
• Updated Windows drivers.
Highlights of the 10.2 Release
Version 10.2 of the 3ware RAID Software and Firmware provides the
following features and benefits to the 3ware 9750 model RAID controllers.
• Support for 6 Gbps SATA+SAS RAID On-a-Chip devices available on
the 3ware 9750 RAID controllers, with continued support for the 3ware
RAID software feature-set.
• Read cache settings let you enable either Basic Read Caching or
Intelligent Read Caching to improve performance.
• Background task mode provides low latency settings to improve
performance in video and audio applications.
• Enclosure alarm support allows you to turn off or mute audible alarms in
supported enclosures that provide alarms.
• Advanced Content Streaming, a 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 degraded unit
can be rebuilt. 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 ensure
that your RAID units are verified on a regular basis.
• Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to help trouble-shoot
performance issues.
• Simultaneous RAID 6 parity generation to maximize RAID 6
performance.
• StreamFusion™+ optimizes RAID 5 and RAID 6 disk accesses to
maximize application performance under heavy loads.
• StorSave™ BBU with write journaling optimizes data protection and
performance.
• Hot-swap and hot-spare for data availability.
• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk.
• With the 9750 models:
• PCI Express
®
x8 Gen 2.0
• Ability to have SAS and/or SATA drives on the same controller (see
“Drive Requirements” on page 3)