User Manual
3
eSATAII 1+1 PCIe RAID Card
RC213
1. Introduction
This Low Profile PCI-Express Host Adapter is a controller board to support Low profile PCI and regular size PCI both
in one card. The card can upgrade your desktop computer to have 2 ports Serial ATA II transfer rate of 3 Gb/s (300
MB/s).
The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have 2Ports Serial ATA Channels and support RAID 5,
RAID 0+1, RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD features. It accepts host commands through the PCI Express bus, processes
them and transfers data between the host and Serial ATA devices. The board should be connected to SATA target
device and will take the data, serialize it and output it for transmission over the SATA interface. The board can control
four independent Serial ATA channels. Each channel has its own Serial ATA bus and will support one Serial ATA device.
The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 & Generation 2 transfer rate of 1.5 Gbps / 3Gbps. It comes completely
with drivers for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003.
RAID, Redundant Array of Independent Disks, greatly enhances two main areas of data storage: performance and
data integrity. By using RAID 0, also known as Striping, performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly
enhanced by simultaneously writing data to 2, 3 or 4 drives. The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1,
Mirroring, writes identical data on two drives or sets of drives, thus protecting the data from a disk failure. If, for any
reason, one drive were to fail, your data is secure and available from the mirrored second drive.
1.1. Features
1.
External SATA II (eSATA) Connector.
2.
48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB.
3.
Supports 1-lane 2.5Gbps PCI Express.
4.
Hot-plug capability.
5.
Supports SATA II transfer rate of 3.0Gbps.
6.
Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 specifications.
7.
Supports two independent Serial ATA channels.
8.
Independent Link, Transport, and data FIFO.
9.
Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution.
10.
Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ).
11.
Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ).
12.
Supports Non-zero offsets NCQ.
13.
Supports Out of order data delivery NCQ.
14.
Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers.
15.
31 Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables per Port.
16.
Two Pin headers on board for LED connection.
17.
Completely with drivers for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows VISTA.
18.
Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data
to 2 drives.
19.
Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives.
