PCI Express - Serial ATA II RAID Adapter
eXpeRAID® ACS-61000/ACS-61010
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The eXpeRAID® PCI Express™ to SATA2
RAID adapters offer superior performance and
comprehensive RAID functions for Windows,
Linux, and Mac platforms with user-friendly
Java-based GUI, RAIDGuard™ X. Built upon
the latest Intel XScale® Technology-based I/O
processor, the eXpeRAID adapters support
RAID 6 for enterprise-class data protection.
Supporting up to 16 SATA2 disk drives, the
eXpeRAID adapters are well suited for various
applications, such as video editing, digital
surveillance, file servers, and shared storage.
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The eXpeRAID adapters deliver excellent
performance with intelligent I/O processing
and elaborated RAID algorithms. The
controller can guarantee timely I/O response
by bypassing slow disk drives and delivering
requested data by fast online data rebuild. It
streamlines the data transfer and sustains a
stable throughput, so the controllers can
smoothly handle heavy-loading and time-
critical applications. It also provides
configurable optimization policies to support
different workload.
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Featuring reliable RAID technologies, the
eXpeRAID adapters protect data against not
only disk drive failure but also bad sectors by
online recovery and reallocation. In addition to
online disk scrubbing for fixing the bad
sectors, the controller also supports online
data and parity refresh to proactively prevent
data loss caused by media aging.
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The eXpeRAID adapters support snapshot, by
which users can instantaneously create data
images at different points of time. After a
snapshot of LUN is created, the original LUN
can still serve I/O requests normally, while the
snapshot can be exported as an independent
LUN for other hosts and applications. The
snapshot helps to implement zero-down time
backup scenario, and speed up backup
operations. Users can also rely on snapshot
for fast data restore or data mining.
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To support dynamics in ever-changing IT
environments, the eXpeRAID adapters provide
not only flexible RAID configurations but also
extensive utilities to online change the RAID
configurations. Users can easily expand the
RAID capacity and repartition the RAID. It is
also allowed to conduct RAID migration virtually
from any to any.
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The innovative on-the-fly RAID initialization
makes the RAID storage instantly available. The
controller initializes the data areas hit by the
host I/O access and maintains a table to track
these areas. The subsequent I/O access and
the background initialization task needs not to
initialize these areas. This efficiently speeds up
the initialization process and improves the
performance during the initialization.
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The eXpeRAID adapters satisfy users of
different backgrounds by offering a variety of
management interfaces, including EFI CLI,
BIOS UI, LCD panel, and Java-based GUI --
RAIDGuard™ X. Users can quickly set up RAID
configurations within minutes, and remotely
manage multiple RAID adapters from single
console by the GUI. Together with friendly event
browsing and email notification, RAIDGuard™ X
can support a newbie to effortlessly enjoy the
high-performance and reliable RAID storage as
well as reduce the support cost of system
integrators.
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In addition to commonly-used platforms, the
eXpeRAID adapters also offer future-proof
interoperability. It supports the next-generation
BIOS, EFI, which is also a necessity on IA-
based Mac machines. It also supports Windows
Storport driver, which enhances the
performance and reliability on Windows
platforms. Meanwhile, the GUI, RAIDGuard™ X,
based on Java, can run on virtually all platforms.
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• PCI Express™ interface
• Support 4,8,12,16 3Gb/s SATA2 drives
• Up to 1GB DDR cache memory with BBM
protection
• Configurable RAID levels: 0, 0+1, 5, 6,
and JBOD
• Instant availability by on-the-fly RAID
initialization
• Support over-2TB volumes
• Optimized for multiple-stream video
processing
• Online RAID expansion and migration
• Online disk scrubbing and SMART
monitoring
• Snapshot for fast backup and restore
• Certified for Windows Vista
• Designed for Windows logo certified
• Support Mac OS and Linux
• Support EFI and legacy BIOS
• Java-based GUI for remote management
• Reliable multi-lane MiniSAS connections
