Overviews :

The PCI-SATA-R provides Serial ATA Software RAID including Striping and Mirroring to enhance the industry’s first proven PCI-to-SATA host controller product. Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures. With the PCI-SATA-R Serial ATA host controller, both of these problems are solved.

Raid Striping greatly improves hard disk I/O performance by concurrently Striping data across multiple drives. RAID Mirroring enables users to enjoy the confidence of data availability regardless of a single disk failure as data is simultaneously written to two drives.

Standard with SATARaid software is a Graphical User Interface(GUI) that provides easy-to-use configurations for the different RAID Sets supported.

Features and specifications :

• Chipset :  Silicon Image Sil3114 SATA controller chip.

• Compliant with PCI Specification, Rev. 2.2.

• Compliant with PCI “Plug & Play”.

• 32-bit 33/66 MHz PCI interface

• Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specification

• Hot Spare and On-line Mirror Rebuilding.

• System GUI Monitoring Utility

• Displays/sLogs/Alerts Users to Vital RAID Set Information

• Manages RAID Set Functions (configures, rebuilds, etc.)

• RAID Set Accommodates Multiple Size HDDs

• Adjustable Stripe Size for RAID 0

• Dual independent DMA channels with 256KB FIFO per channel

• Supports SATA up to 150MB/Sec.

• Supports all UDMA and PIO Modes

• Supports up to 4 SATA Devices

• Supports ACPI

• Supports Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP and NT 4.0 and Linux

• Support RAID 0 ( Striprd), RAID 1 ( mirrored) by installing the software

Package Content :

• PCI SATA / SATA Raid Card

• 2 SATA cable

• Power Cable

• User Manual

• Driver CD