Lindy 70538 user manual Introduction, Features, PCI Interface, High Speed Serial ATA Interface

1. Introduction

This PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board which can upgrade your desktop computer to have dual independent Serial ATA Channels to support RAID 0 and RAID 1 features, three 1394 ( FireWire ) ports and four USB2.0 / USB1.1 ports.

The board supports a 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus revision 2.2, 1394 transfer rate of 400 Mb/s, USB transfer rate of 1.5Mb/s, 12Mb/s, 480Mb/s and the Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s).

It comes completely with drivers for Windows.

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 drives. The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1, Mirroring, writes identical data on two 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

1.1.1. PCI Interface

Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2.

Compliant with PCI IDE Controller Specification, revision 1.0.

Compliant with Programming Interface for Bus Master IDE Controller revision 1.0. 32 bit, 33Mhz fully compliant PCI host interface.

Integrated PCI DMA engines.

1.1.2. High Speed Serial ATA Interface

Dual high speed serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation Serial ATA data rates (1.5Gb/s).

Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives.

Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives.

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