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Highlights of the 9.5.1 Release
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 degraded redundant but 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 insure your RAID units are verified on a regular basis.

| Drive performance monitoring provides statistics to help trouble-shoot performance issues.

| Support for the I2C-MUX-SM1 on the 9690SA

| 8th-generation StorSwitch™ non-blocking switch fabric for maximum controller output

| 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

| RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and Single Disk

(RAID 6 and RAID 50 are available only with 3ware RAID controller models that have 8 or more ports)

| Support for storage enclosures (see Enclosure Requirements)

| With the 9690SA models:

| PCI Express® x8

| Dual-ported SAS drive support

| Ability to have SAS and/or SATA drives on the same controller (see Drive Requirements)

| Connectivity with up to 128 single-ported drives or 64 dual-ported drives

| Up to 32 drives in a unit

| Up to 32 active units

| Up to 4 SAS enclosures with expanders

| With the 9650SE models:

| Choice of 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, or 24 SATA ports

| PCI Express® x1, x4 and x8

| With the 9650SE-4LPME model:

| Choice of 2 or 4 SATA ports

| PCI Express x4 or x8

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

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