Highlights of the 10.2 Release

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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)

| Connectivity with up to 127 single-ported drives or 62 dual-ported drives when using cascaded chassis that use expanders of the same type. (see Enclosure Management Requirements)

| Up to 32 drives in a unit

| Up to 32 active units

| Operating system support for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, and VMware.

Related Topics
  System Requirements
  Understanding RAID Concepts and Levels
  3ware Tools for Configuration and Management
  Monitoring, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting Features

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