LSI 9550SX-8LP SATA II RAID Controller 9550SX-8LP Leaflet

Half length/low profile

Half length/low profile

Half length

Half length

Half length

4

8

12

12

16

PCI-X

PCI-X

PCI-X

PCI-X

PCI-X

64-bit/133MHz

64-bit/133MHz

64-bit/133MHz

64-bit/133MHz

64-bit/133MHz

128 MB

128 MB

256 MB

256 MB

256 MB

Discrete

Discrete

Discrete

Multi-lane

Multi-lane

9550SXU-4LP    

9550SXU-8LP    

9550SXU-12    

9550SXU-12MI    

9550SXU-16ML

• Array/Drive Status and drive identification LED support

• Chassis Control Unit for enclosure management via I

2

C

• Low operating temperature at full utilization

• Microsoft® Windows® 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, 

Fedora Linux, 2.4 Linux kernel, 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD, 32/64-bit support
For complete OS listing, go to:  
www.3ware.com/support/OS-support

• Low profile (4 and 8-port) and half-length form factors

• 4, 8, 12, and 16-port configurations

• PCI-X 1.0b (and PCI 2.3) compliant 64-bit/133/100/66MHz bus master

• Serial ATA 2.5 Specification support

• BIOS PnP (plug and play) and BBS (BIOS boot specification) support

• Operating Temperature Without BBU: 0˚C to 50˚C

With BBU:  

10˚C to 40˚C

• Power Requirements

3.5 –10 W @ 3.3 V (depending on configuration)

• Dimensions 

9550SX-4LP 

7.475”L x 2.536”H

(18.987cm x 6.441cm)

9550SX-8LP 

7.475”L x 2.536”H

(18.987cm x 6.441cm)

9550SX-12 

6.875”L x 4.2”H

(17.463cm x 10.668cm)

9550SX-12MI

6.875”L x 4.2”H

(17.463cm x 10.668cm)

9550SX-16ML

6.875”L x 4.2”H

(17.463cm x 10.668cm)

• 3-year warranty

• Support via the web at www.3ware.com/support

• For latest motherboard and hard drive compatibility listing go to:

• BBU-9550SX-01

Battery Backup Unit

• RDC-400-SATA

SATA internal drive cage 

• RDE-400-XSATA

SATA RAID drive enclosure

• CBL-SATA-39

1m Serial ATA cable

• CBL-IB-05M

0.5m Serial ATA Multi-lane (4x) cable

• CBL-IB-10M

1m Serial ATA Multi-lane (4x) cable

• BATT-9550SX-SPARE

Replacement battery for BBU-9950SX-01

• 7th-generation StorSwitch

™

point-to-point, non-blocking switched

architecture

• On-board PowerPC RISC processor 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

• Up to 256 MB DDR2 400 memory with ECC protection

• 32 pooled DMA channels

• Complete configuration management suite

— 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM2) – easy to use BIOS configuration tool 
— 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM

®

2) – browser-based management tool 

* Features include: secure access via ssh or https, create unit, delete 

unit, remove unit, import unit, migrate unit, verify unit rebuild unit

— Command Line Interface (CLI) – scriptable configuration tool 

• SNMP support

• SMTP support for email/pager notification

• ATA/6 and Out of band (OOB) staggered drive spin-up support

• Auto carving allows logical units larger than 2 TB to be divided into 

multiple units for legacy operating systems that are limited to a 
maximum of 2 TB per logical unit

• StorSave platform for advanced performance tuning with the BBU

• Multiple logical unit sizes and RAID levels on one card

• Multiple card support within a system for large storage requirements

• Hot-swap and hot-spare support for data availability

• Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection

• S.M.A.R.T. disk drive monitoring for reliability

• Emergency Flash Recovery protects against failed firmware upgrade

• Drive activity LED support

• Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration

• Battery Backup Unit (BBU) ready

• Enhanced data protection with write journaling for non-redundant 

arrays and accidental drive removal 

• Drive insertion and removal notification

3ware 9550SX

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