Serial ATA Flash Drive

AP-SRFD255AXXXXR-G

2. Functions

2.1Overview

￿Compatible with SATA Gen1 and Gen2 host controllers

￿OS independent, Driverless, Auto Configuration

￿FAST (RAID 0), SAFE (RAID 1) support

￿Embedded fast RAID Processor

￿Virtualization engine to simplify and improve utilization of storage devices

￿Ultra-fast 3Gbps host and device port capability

2.2Intelligent SATA RAID Processor Unit

￿Automatic Failover in RAID 1 mode

￿Automatic Rebuild in RAID 1 mode

￿Automatic RAID mode configuration

￿100GB/hr Rebuild speed without Host CPU loading

￿High performance, reliability and simplicity with hardware RAID 0, 1 options

￿Virtualized multiple storage devices into one or many storage units, e.g. multi-drive spanning, drive partitioning

￿High-speed, native SATA II connection to host and device

￿Device-to-device(s) copy to off-load host during rebuild

￿LED drivers for status reporting

￿Drive Splitting for multi-RAID partitions on a single volume with PM Aware Host

2.3SATA

￿1x2 Port Multiplier Functionality

￿1.5Gpbs or 3Gpbs link rate with auto-negotiation

￿Supports hot plug, drive roaming

￿Supports host control of hard disk drive staggered spin-up

￿Host side NCQ support

2.4Architecture

￿Features independent 8-KByte FIFO per Device Serial ATA channel for reads and writes

￿High Performance data movement between all SATA Generation 2 ports

￿Greater than 110MBps sustained reads in RAID 1 mode (limited by drives)

￿Support store and forwarding

2.5Applications

￿PC

￿DVR

￿PVR

￿Video Editing Systems

￿eSATA Storage Target/Host

 

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