LSI 3ware Sidecar 3WARESIDECARKIT-US Prospecto

Operating System Support 
• Microsoft Windows 2003/XP/2000 (32/64-bit)

• Microsoft Windows Vista (32/64-bit)

• Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Fedora Core (32/64-bit)

• Linux Kernels 2.4, 2.6 (32/64-bit)

• FreeBSD  (32/64-bit)

• Mac OS X (G5: 10.4.6+, Mac Pro: 10. 4.8)

For complete OS listing, go to:  www.3ware.com/support/OS-support

3ware Sidecar Minimum System Requirements 
• Apple Mac Pro, Power Mac G5 or PC workstation

• Available PCI Express slot (x4 minimum)

• Supported operating system

Note: Power Mac G5 with PCI-X is not supported

• Low profile form factor

• 4-port configuration

• PCI Express X4

• Serial ATA 2.6 Specification support

• Operating Temperature: 0˚C to 50˚C

• Power Requirements:  3.5–10 W @ 3.3V (depending on configuration)

• 4-bay external Serial ATA desktop enclosure

• 2 m SFF-8088 Multi-lane cable

• Chassis Control Unit for enclosure management via I

2

C

• Universal switching power supply 90V – 240V

• Hot swappable drive carriers

• 9650SE-4LPME controller 

7.8”L x 2.92”H   (19.8cm x 7.4cm )

• RDE-400-XSATA enclosure     12.75”L x 6.75”H x 7.00”W 

( 32.385cm x 17.145cm x 17.780cm ) 

• 3-year warranty on the 9650SE-4LPME

• 1-year warranty on the RDE-400-XSATA

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

• For latest hard drive compatibility listing go to: 

• CBL-SFF8088-20M

2m Multi-lane cable

• I

2

C Cable

Enclosure management cable

• RDE-TRAY-01

Spare drive tray

• True hardware RAID

• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD

• Exclusive StorSwitch

™

high performance architecture

• Up to 3TB capacity*

• 128MB DDR2 533 memory with ECC protection

• Complete configuration management suite

— 3DM® Scout (Mac only)

— 3ware Disk Manager 2 (3DM®2) 

— Command Line Interface (CLI) 

• BBU Support

• Hot-swap and hot-spare support for easy maintenance

• Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection

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

• Front panel LED status indicators

• Online Capacity Expansion and RAID Level Migration

• Drive insertion and removal notification

• RoHS compliant (lead free)

* Using easily sourced 750 GB SATA drives (not included )

SATA II offers significantly faster  transfer speeds, better scalability, 
and improved cabling options than Firewire and USB interfaces.
See the below table.

All AMCC 3ware RAID controllers incorporate on-board processors to
deliver true hardware RAID.  Software RAID schemes use the system’s
processor, exploit host memory, potentially compromise reliability 
and rob the host system’s valuable CPU cycles just to process RAID
calculations.

3ware Sidecar

AMCC reserves the right to make changes to its products, or to discontinue any product or service without notice, and advises its customers 
to obtain the latest version of relevant information to verify, before placing orders, that the information being relied upon is current.

AMCC, 3ware and 3DM are registered trademarks and StorSwitch and Multi-lane are trademarks of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. 
All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Use of the term 'Sidecar' is made under agreement with Digital Tigers, Inc. 
Copyright © 2007 Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. All Rights Reserved. DSSC_04/09/07

USA: +1-877-883-9273

+1-408-542-8771

Europe: +44-161-232-6360
Asia/Pacific: 

+65-6826-3381

Japan: +0800-123-9273
China: 

+86-10-6581-4916

SATA II

3Gb/s (300MB/s)

Firewire 800

800Mb/s (80MB/s)

Firewire 400

400Mb/s (40MB/s)

USB 2.0

480Mb/s  (48MB/s)

Note:  These interfaces use 8b/10b encoding