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Supporting up to 8 SATA II and SATA I hard drives, the 3ware 9650SE-8LPML PCI Express controller card is perfect for entry-level storage servers. Supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, single disk, and JBOD, the 3ware 9650SE can not only backup data but can also significantly extend the storage capacity of a system.
Featuring a PCI-Express x4 compatibility it’s one of the few PCIe controller cards available. Providing S.M.A.R.T drive monitoring for status and reliability, hot swap and hot spare drive storage, the 3ware 9650SE is perfect for small to medium size businesses.
Another essential feature in IT environments is the ability for the 3ware 9650SE card to automatically rebuild the RAID array if a drive fails. Last but not least, the 9650SE supports a variety of operating systems including the following: Windows (XP, 2000, Server 2003), Windows x64bit, Linux and FreeBSD.
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Worth the money for the peace of mind
- Pros: True hardware RAID, lower CPU usage; onboard processor/cache. Ease of installation and configuration. Firmware update program updates on the fly in WinXP. I was able to plug the card in, boot windows, update the firmware, install the drivers, and configure the arrays in minutes. The BIOS is easy to use to configure the array. Web server application can monitor errors, verify and rebuild units, and control most options of the controller remotely. Unit order can be modified in the BIOS, staggered spinup available, NCQ supported and can be disabled if needed. Even though it is pretty expensive, the peace of mind is worth it. It works flawlessly once configured properly, and is extremely fast compared to the motherboard RAID I was using before.
- Cons: Price is somewhat prohibitive. WinXP still requires a floppy drive to add drivers for the card (F6 prompt when installing. It's really that big of a deal, just annoying.) On a side note, I used to run the 6 drives I use with 4 on the NVIDIA SATA controller on the motherboard and 2 on the Sil3114. The Sil3114 is junk, I am sure you have seen that written elsewhere. Many corrupted files and lockups due to the Sil3114.
- Other Thoughts: I have the Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard in which I had planned to use the X4 slot to install this card. It functions, but if you look closer in the controller BIOS information, it shows PCIE X1, which the card is capable of. It should be running PCIE X4 at 1000MBps to achieve full transfer potential. (X1 runs at only 250MBps or 250MBps per lane.) Next I plugged into the X16 slot (second SLI slot which I was not using for video.) The card would not initialize. Although I couldn't find any documentation stating this, I had to switch the motherboard bios to Dual Video Cards, then the 9650 was recognized, and showed X4 in the information page of the BIOS (4 lane in the 3DM2 web application.) I am using 009 BIOS revision for the A8N-SLI Premium, for reference.
This card is an excellent upgrade if you can afford it. Tom's hardware even says so: ml
Expensive, Excellent
- Pros: The card is very easy to setup and configure!
Speed appears to be excellent (google for formal performance benchmarks) IF write cache is turned on. If write cache is turned off, writing take at least 5 to 10 times longer.
Tested RAID 6 and yanked two of eight drives in array and reinserted. Notification worked with Fedora and XP and automatic rebuild in background worked perfect with or without an OS (that's a big advantage of hardware RAID!).
Phone support is readily available.
- Cons: For whatever reason, I was expecting this card to have battery backup. I've ordered one separate, but am not happy that I missed this detail when considering this card.
One could argue that a UPS can protect you if you run non-critical applications, but a battery is highly recommended prior to turning on the write-back cache for any application where data integrity is required.
- Other Thoughts: Fedora Core 6 drivers are available but hard to find at 3ware.com. Google “9650se "fedora core 6" driver download” to get your drivers.
Beta Vista drivers are available now, but final drivers and management tools will not be released until the middle of March 07.
I briefly tested configuring a boot partition with Fedora. 3Ware tech support didn’t have any viable suggestions for making this work. In all fairness, it may be that motherboard doesn’t properly account for RAID add-on cards in their BIOS. I didn’t pursue this further since it wasn’t my end objective. For disaster recovery reasons, I wanted to keep my boot partition on a separate controller from my data anyway.
Some NTFS undelete utilities do not work with this card. R-Studio works for NTFS. I could not find a good undelete tool for ext3 or ReiserFS. Technically, most advanced LINUX partitions are designed for security, not for recovery.
| Model | 9650SE-8LPML KIT |
| Type | SATA II |
| Interface | PCI Express |
| RAID | RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50 JBOD |
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Nice Controller
- Pros: Nice Throughput with multiple io's
- Cons: None- used 3ware forever never had a problem with *any* of their controllers
- Other Thoughts: Got a raid 10 array of raptors for our exchange setup, this thing is a beast
***READ THIS***
Make sure if you want to use write caching you order the 3ware battery unit.
.... also on newegg :)
PEICE OF GARBAGE
- Pros: Works when it wants to, very difficult to understand anything this card does or can do. or even how to do any of what it says it can do.
- Cons: Manual is the worst thing since small pox. Support is even worse thats IF, a BIG IF you even get anyone on the phone or anyone to answer your emails.
Manual is wrong about almost everything, furthermore their knowledge base, thats again BIG IF, you want to call it that, sucks. Articles are so difficult to find, search fucntion hardly works. You would think paying $500+ bucks for a raid card they better have some decent flipping support. but they dont. TOP IT OFF they just sold out to LSI logic, they were bought out for 20mil. go figure why their support sucks. GREED gets to everyone in this world. what a cra* p* py company to do business with. I would of been better off buying a $50 raid card and not have any support.
- Other Thoughts: I'M and IDIOT and i bought two of these cards thinking they were rated so well and their sales support was so good, no reason why their Tech support wouldnt be good. HOW WRONG I WAS!.
I will NEVER buy 3ware again!
Just works
- Pros: Moved this card from one computer to the next and it always "just works." Just plug it in, reboot the machine and enter the 3Ware BIOS program which never fails to show up.
RAID 6 capability allows SATA arrays to match the availability of super-expensive SCSI.
- Cons: Expensive.
- Other Thoughts: Comes with 2 multi-lane cables. The documentation is sketchy on this, but its the BOTTOM multilane cable that is for drive slots 0-3 and the TOP cable for slots 4-7.
Comes with drive activity light pins, but didn't need to hook them up to get working activity lights.
| Model |
| Brand |
3ware |
| Model |
9650SE-8LPML KIT |
| Specifications |
| Type |
SATA II |
| Interface |
PCI Express x4 |
| Cache Memory |
256 MB DDR2 533 |
| RAID |
RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, Single Disk, JBOD |
| Operating Systems Supported |
Microsoft Windows 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Fedora Linux, 2.4 Linux kernel, 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD |
| Dimensions |
7.3" x 2.7" |
| Features |
| Features |
Port Count: 8
Connector Type: Multi-lane
BBU Support: Yes
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 the benefits of SCSI using inexpensive Serial ATA drives
Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance
Variable stripe size for performance tuning by application
64-bit LBA support
ATA pass-through mode support
32 pooled DMA channels
SNMP support
SMTP support for email/pager notification |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
9650SE-8LPML
Cables
L-P Bracket
Installation Guide
Driver Disk |
Introduction
Supporting up to 8 SATA II and SATA I hard drives, the 3ware 9650SE-8LPML PCI Express controller card is perfect for entry-level storage servers. Supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, single disk, and JBOD, the 3ware 9650SE can not only backup data but can also significantly extend the storage capacity of a system.
Featuring a PCI-Express x4 compatibility it’s one of the few PCIe controller cards available. Providing S.M.A.R.T drive monitoring for status and reliability, hot swap and hot spare drive storage, the 3ware 9650SE is perfect for small to medium size businesses.
Another essential feature in IT environments is the ability for the 3ware 9650SE card to automatically rebuild the RAID array if a drive fails. Last but not least, the 9650SE supports a variety of operating systems including the following: Windows (XP, 2000, Server 2003), Windows x64bit, Linux and FreeBSD.
Highlights
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Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s with RAID
The revolutionary Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface provides scalable performance for storage devices. SATA technology enables easy-to-install and high-performance hard drives. Eight SATA ports (Through two Multi-lane Connectors) support RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50,Single Disk, JBOD for better performance and reliability.
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PCI Express x4 Interface
The PCI Express x1 interface provides 10 Gb/s throughput and full-duplex operation for enhanced performance.
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2 Brackets
The 3ware 9650SE-8LPML includes 2 brackets to support low-profile and regular PCI slots.
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Quick Specs
| Brand | 3ware |
| Interface | PCI Express |
| RAID | RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50 JBOD |
| Type | SATA II |
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Reviewed By: Nightmare on 1/29/2007
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
