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Quick Installation Guide
RAID Features
• Support RAID level 0, 1, JBOD and Single Disk
• Multiple RAID selection
• Array roaming
• Online RAID level/stripe size migration
• Online capacity expansion and RAID level migration simultaneously
• Instant availability
• Automatic drive insertion / removal detection and rebuilding
• Greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
• SMART disk drive monitoring for reliability
Monitors/Notification
• System status indication through HDD activity/fault connector, and
alarm buzzer
• SMTP support for email notification
• SNMP support for remote Manager
RAID Management
• Field-upgradeable firmware in flash ROM
In-Band Manager
• Web browser-based McRAID Storage manager via Http Proxy Server
for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD system
• Hot key “boot-up” McBIOS RAID manager via BIOS
• Support Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Support controller's API library for customer to write its own AP
• Single Admin Portal (SAP) monitor utility
• HDD Stress Test (HST) utility for production
Operating System
• Windows Vista/Server 2003/XP/2000
• RedHat Linux
• SuSE Linux
• FreeBSD
• Novell Netware 6.5
• Solaris 10 x86/x86_64
• SCO Unixware 7.1.4
• Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 Leopard
(For latest supported OS listing visit http://www.areca.com.tw)
