AMCC SIDECAR 3, 9550SX 2 StorSwitch, StorSave, StreamFusion, Multi-lane, 3Gb/s transfer speed

3ware features and benefits

StorSwitch™	Maximizes controller throughput by allowing concurrent communications with all attached	Performance
Non-blocking switch fabric architecture	SATA drives through a pool of 32 direct memory access (DMA) channels.
StorSave	Achieves unmatched data protection while maximizing performance in critical RAID modes	Data Protection
Powerful reliability enhancements	when data availability, accessibility, and data protection are most needed.
StreamFusion	Maximizes application performance under heavy loads by dynamically allocating controller	Performance
Intelligent cache algorithm	cache for maximum bandwidth
Multi-lane™	Dramatically increases subsystem reliability by radically reducing cable count and improves	Reliability & Convenience
Award-winning connector system	airflow
RAID 6	Two sets of parity are simultaneously calculated, written, and rotated across all the drives.	Data Protection
(On select 3ware 9650SE controllers)	This allows the array to survive up to two drive failures without losing data, for significantly
	improved fault tolerance.
On-board PowerPC processor and G133	Frees the host CPU to maintain overall system and application performance by managing all	Performance
RAID engine (True Hardware RAID)	RAID IO processing requirements
3Gb/s transfer speed	Doubles available drive-side bandwidth to exploit scalability features	Performance
3ware Sidecar and SATA II controllers
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)	Improves performance of queued workloads by minimizing mechanical positioning latencies	Performance
3ware Sidecar and SATA II controllers	on the drive. 32 outstanding commands can be reordered before reading or writing the data.