Thank you for purchasing the MANHATTAN® SATA 300 RAID PCI Express Card, Model 160377. Compliant with PCI Express 1.0a and SATA 1.0 specifications, this card adds dual internal SATA 300 ports to connect data storage and other SATA peripheral devices, and supports SATA 3 Gbps and RAID 5 data transfer rates.
IMPORTANT: Prior to PCI Express Card (controller card) installation, read the SATA RAID 5
manual on the enclosed CD, in the folder: \SATA PCIe_Raid5_2Port\SiI3132\Windows\Gui (or \Raid5 SATA2_4Port \SiI3124\Windows\Gui). This RAID manual has more information about RAID architecture, features, installation and settings, plus management software for RAID 5 GUI (graphical user interface).
After driver installation, if desired, install SATA RAID 5 GUI for RAID management. Before SATA RAID 5 GUI installation, you must remove all the existing SATA RAID GUI (or Java SATA RAID GUI) to ensure your new SATA RAID 5 GUI can work properly; i.e.: (\Start\Control Panel\Add or Remove Programs\Select all SATARaid\Remove).
RAID sets can be created and managed by either the BIOS utility setting or the SATA RAID 5 GUI setting under Windows.
For RAID building, the BIOS utility allows random creation; GUI just supports the building by sequential SATA Port1, Port2, etc.
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