Areca ARC-5030 Series, Руководство пользователя

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INTRODUCTION
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1. Introduction
The RAID subsystem controller is designed to fit in a three 5.25”
half-height drive bay for easy integration in any disk array enclosure
or server. The controller host base module depends on vary model
with different configuration. For ARC-5030 controller host come with
ATA/133 & SATA and five SATA ll channels for disk drives. For (ARC-
6020) controller host support 320 SCSI channel and five SATA ll chan -
nels for disk drives. The RAID subsystem is a high-performance SATA
ll drive bus disk array Controller. When properly configured, the RAID
subsystem can provide non-stop service with a high degree of fault tol-
erance through the use of RAID technology and advanced array man-
agement features. The RAID subsystem controller connects to the host
system through an IDE or SCSI interface. The HOST interface on the
host may be located either on the system board, or on a plug-in host
bus adapter (HBA) card.
The RAID subsystem allows easy scalability from JBOD to RAID. It can
be configured to RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 and 6. The RAID function
allows two HDD failure without impact on the existing data and failed
drive Data can be reconstructed from the remaining data and parity
drives. RAID configuration and monitoring can be done through the
LCD front control pane (option) or serial port/LAN port.
The controller unit is most cost-effective SATA disk drive RAID subsys-
tems with completely integrated high-performance and data-protection
capabilities, which meet the performance and features of a midrange
storage product at an entry-level price.
The IDE/SATA to SATA ll subsystem controller is the only available
RAID solution that does not require a conventional PCI slot. It uses the
standard IDE protocol to connect the host system IDE controller. The
IDE/SATA to SATA ll don’t need an extra controller card and can fully
utilize the IDE bus (100MB/s) performance. With Intel Accelerated Hub
Architecture and VIA Link architecture (It provides twice the bandwidth
of the traditional PCI bus architecture at 266 MB per second.) the IDE
bus bandwidth is independent of the PCI bus in the chip set design,
giving the best PCI performance for Ethernet Card The IDE driver is
also a standard part of all major operating systems such as Windows
95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP, Novell, MAC, Linux, UNIX, etc., the host sys-
tem does not require additional or proprietary software to work with