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Apacer Technology AP-SRFD255AXXXXR-G Specifications Download Page 1

Serial ATA Flash Drive

AP-SRFD255AXXXXR-G

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© 2008 Apacer Technology Inc.

Rev 0.2 (Preliminary)

RoHS Compliant

Serial ATA RAID Flash Drive

Specifications for SRFD

April 25, 2008

[Preliminary]

Apacer Technology Inc.

9/F, No. 100, Hsin Tai Wu Rd., Hsichih, Taipei Hsien 221, Taiwan

Tel: +886-2-2696-1666 Fax: +886-2-2696-1668

www.apacer.com

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Summary of Contents for AP-SRFD255AXXXXR-G

Page 1: ...chnology Inc Rev 0 2 Preliminary RoHS Compliant Serial ATA RAID Flash Drive Specifications for SRFD April 25 2008 Preliminary Apacer Technology Inc 9 F No 100 Hsin Tai Wu Rd Hsichih Taipei Hsien 221 Taiwan Tel 886 2 2696 1666 Fax 886 2 2696 1668 www apacer com ...

Page 2: ...ec Capacities 1 GB for each slot with Ultra DMA mode support Expansion 50 pin CF slot x 2 Mode FAST RAID 0 SAFE RAID 1 OS Support Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP Auto Standby and Sleep modes supported Temperature ranges 0 C 70 C for operation 40 C 100 C for storage Supply voltage 5 0 V 5 Form factor 2 5 inch 7 pin SATA male connector 15 pin SATA power connector Low power consumption 510 mA typical R...

Page 3: ...2 2 Intelligent SATA RAID Processor Unit 8 2 3 SATA 8 2 4 Architecture 8 2 5 Applications 8 2 6 Virtualization 9 2 7 Modes 9 2 7 1 Fast RAID 0 Mode 9 2 7 2 Safe RAID 1 Mode 9 2 8 RAID 1 Racing 10 2 9 Sector Recovery and Disk Rebuild 10 2 9 1 Sector Recovery 10 2 9 2 Disk Rebuild 11 2 9 3 Disk Verify 11 3 Pin Assignments 12 4 Environmental Specification 14 5 Physical Characteristics 15 5 1 Dimensio...

Page 4: ... and security by utilizing an SATA interface and saving data into two CompactFlash cards It offers capacity expansion ultimate performance reliability and simplicity with a variety of hardware RAID modes 1 1 Functional Block Diagram The Functional Block SATA RAID Flash Drive SRFD contains a SATA RAID Processor Unit two CF media slots with PATA interfaces and a SATA interface to the Host Figure 1 1...

Page 5: ...y Inc Rev 0 2 Preliminary 1 2 Appearance This section describes the appearance of the SRFD It contains the LED indication mode configurations expansion slots and interfaces SATA connector Power connector R W LED D2 Link LED D1 RAID Mode Configuration Table CF Slot 2 ...

Page 6: ...ored II Physical drive change rules no drivers accepted in SAFE RAID 1 mode a single driver change will be accepted with normal driver rules larger or equal to existing drive B Upon power up but with no pushbutton reset press I Any configuration change is ignored II Physical drive change rules no drivers accepted in SAFE RAID 1 mode a single driver change will be accepted with normal driver rules ...

Page 7: ...LED_D0_N1 CF 1 D4 Green LED_D0_N0 See table as below D5 Yellow LED_D1_N1 CF 2 D6 Green LED_D1_N0 See table as below Table 1 3 CF 1 and CF 2 LED Description LED_Dx_N1 D3 D5 LED_Dx_N0 D4 D6 Device Unplugged No Power Blink Blink Device Plugged Idle On Off Device Plugged Activity On Flash On Disk Rebuild A Physical Partition is being Rebuilt Safe Mode RAID 1 Blink On Disk Rebuild Verify A Physical Par...

Page 8: ...ed multiple storage devices into one or many storage units e g multi drive spanning drive partitioning High speed native SATA II connection to host and device Device to device s copy to off load host during rebuild LED drivers for status reporting Drive Splitting for multi RAID partitions on a single volume with PM Aware Host 2 3 SATA 1x2 Port Multiplier Functionality 1 5Gpbs or 3Gpbs link rate wi...

Page 9: ...es not truly fit the RAID acronym This method splits the data over numerous drives but is seen as one drive by the operating system If one drive fails though all data becomes inaccessible This level is commonly referred to as striping The RAID Processor supports a definition of Fast RAID 0 set The stripe size chunk size is set to 8 KB The HBA Host Bus Adapter does not need to know anything about t...

Page 10: ... benefit of mirroring the data on the same drive 2 8 RAID 1 Racing The Storage Processor improves the speed of RAID 1 SAFE mode by introducing RAID 1 drive racing When reading a sector both mirrored drives race and the first one to get the data supplies the information lowering the average seek time 2 9 Sector Recovery and Disk Rebuild For Safe RAID 1 volumes the firmware implements three addition...

Page 11: ...thing is pending Physical Disk insertion Assume the inserted Physical Disk is good and ready to use Another Sector Recovery or Disk Rebuild completes During Disk Rebuild the Physical Partition is not read from but all writes are propagated to the drive 2 9 3 Disk Verify In addition to the Sector Recovery and Disk Rebuild the Storage Processor also implements a Data Verification scheme For sector R...

Page 12: ...D255AXXXXR G 12 2008 Apacer Technology Inc Rev 0 2 Preliminary 3 Pin Assignments Table 3 1 Signal segment Pin Signal Description S1 Ground S2 RxP S3 RxN Serial Data Receiver S4 Ground S5 TxN S6 TxP Serial Data Transmitter S7 Ground ...

Page 13: ...nology Inc Rev 0 2 Preliminary Table 3 2 Power segment Pin Signal Description P1 Not Used 3 3V P2 Not Used 3 3V P3 Not Used P4 Ground P5 Ground P6 Ground P7 5V Pre charge P8 5V P9 5V P10 Ground P11 Ground P12 Ground P13 Not Used P14 Not Used 12V P15 Not Used 12V ...

Page 14: ...cification follows the US Military Standard MIL STD 801F Table 4 1 Environmental Specifications Plan 0 C 70 C for operation Temperature 40 C 100 C for Storage Humidity 5 95 R H non condensing Vibration A Sine wave 5 55 5Hz X Y Z axes B Random 10 2000Hz 16 3g X Y Z 3 axes Shock Operating A Acceleration 1 500G 0 5ms B Peak acceleration 50G 11ms ...

Page 15: ...Serial ATA Flash Drive AP SRFD255AXXXXR G 15 2008 Apacer Technology Inc Rev 0 2 Preliminary 5 Physical Characteristics 5 1 Dimension Unit mm Tolerance 0 2 ...

Page 16: ... G 16 2008 Apacer Technology Inc Rev 0 2 Preliminary 6 Product Ordering Information 6 1 Product Code Designations A P SRFD 25 5 A XXXX R G Housing OEM Device RoHS Blank Standard Product Type SATA RAID Flash Drive Apacer Product Code 2 5 inch ...

Page 17: ...e AP SRFD255AXXXXR G 17 2008 Apacer Technology Inc Rev 0 2 Preliminary Revision History Revision Description Date 0 1 Initial release Preliminary specification Jan 07 2008 0 2 Updated features and function modes Apr 25 2008 ...

Page 18: ... com Japan Apacer Technology Corp 5F Matsura Bldg Shiba Minato Ku Tokyo 105 0014 Japan Tel 81 3 5419 2668 Fax 81 3 5419 0018 jpservices apacer com Europe Apacer Technology B V Europalaan 89 5232 BC S Hertogenbosch The Netherlands Tel 31 73 645 9620 Fax 31 73 645 9629 sales apacer nl China Apacer Electronic Shanghai Co Ltd 1301 No 251 Xiaomuqiao Road Shanghai 200032 China Tel 86 21 6226 4722 Fax 86...

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