eSATA-150 RAID External 2Ports Low Profile PCI Adapter
RC-221 User Manual
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Important Message to RAID User:
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Before the installation of controller card, please to study the PDF file of
SATA Raid manual at enclosed CD folder \ SATA Raid_2Port \ SiI3x12 \
Win98_me_2000_xp_nt4.0 \ Gui first. This Raid manual has more information
on Raid architecture, Raid features, Raid installation, Raid setting
and Management software for Raid GUI (Graphical User Interface).
2.
After driver installation, if you like, you can install SATARaid GUI for Raid
management. Before SATARaid GUI installation, you must remove all the
existing SATARaid GUI (or Java SATARaid GUI) to ensure your new SATARaid
GUI can work properly.
i.e. : (\ Start \ Control Panel \ Add or Remove Programs \ Select all
SATARaid \ Remove)
3.
For the creating and management of Raid sets, you can either use BIOS
utility setting before Windows operation or use GUI setting under Windows.
1. Introduction
The SATA RAID 2 Port PCI Host Adapter is a PCI to dual Serial ATA host
controller board. It provides a 32bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the host side and
dual, fully compliant Serial ATA ports on the device side to access SATA storage
devices.
The board can be used to upgrade your desktop computer to have dual Serial
ATA Channels and support RAID 0 and RAID 1 features.
The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s). It
comes completely with drivers for Windows Vista, 2003, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP.
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 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.