Rosewill RC211 user manual Introduction, Features

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RC211

Installation Instruction

 

 

 

 

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.

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Contents Raid5 Sata II 3Gbps Host Adapter RC211 Important Message for User RC211 Installation InstructionIntroduction FeaturesDisk Striping RAID What Is RAIDPackage Contents RAID Redundant Array of Independent DisksJust Bunch of Disks JBOD, Contiguous Installation ProceduresMirrored-Striping RAID 0+1 also known as RAID Parity RAID RAIDBios Setting RAID Setting Creating Striped Sets RAIDCreating Mirrored Sets RAID Creating a Mirrored-Striped Set RAID Creating Parity RAID RAIDCreating Jbod Sets Resolving Conflict Creating Spare DriveDeleting RAID Sets Rebuilding Mirrored Sets RAIDWindows 2000/XP/2003 Fresh Installation Software InstallationThank you for purchasing a quality Rosewill Product