3Ware 9550SXU-8LP User Guide - Page 253

A Glossary • 3BM 2. 3ware BIOS Manager. The 3ware BIOS (Basic Input Output System) manager is a basic interface used to view, maintain, and manage 3ware controllers, disks, and units, without having to boot the operating system. 3BM is included with the controller and is updated when the controller firmware is flash-upgraded. For 9550SX and 9590SE controllers, the tw_update utility is used to update the firmware. The latest firmware and code set is available for download from the 3ware web site: http://www.3ware.com/support/ • 3DM 2. 3ware Disk Manager. The 3ware disk manager is a web-based graphical user interface that can be used to view, maintain, and manage 3ware controllers, disks, and units. It is available for download from http://www.3ware.com/downloads. • 3ware. Named after the 3 computer wares: hardware, software and firmware. A leading brand of high-performance, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) RAID storage solutions. • A-Chip. AccerATA chip. Automated data port to handle asynchronous ATA disk drive interface. • AMCC. Applied Micro Circuits Corporation provides the essential building blocks for the processing, moving and storing of information worldwide. • Array. One or more disk drives that appear to the operating system as a single unit. Within 3ware software (3BM and 3DM) arrays are typically referred to as units. • Array Roaming. The process of swapping out or adding in a configured unit without having to shut down the system. This is useful if you need to move the unit to another controller. • Background rebuild rate. The rate at which a particular controller initializes, rebuilds, and verifies redundant units (RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 50). • Boot volume size. The size to be assigned to volume 0 when creating a unit through 3BM. Note that the resulting volume does not have to be used as a boot volume. However, if the operating system is installed on the unit, it is installed in volume 0. www.3ware.com 243