INTRODUCTION
This SATA 300 RAID PCI Express Card (also known as a
The card can upgrade your desktop computer to a
3 Gbps, and supports 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 SATA 300 devices. When connected to a SATA target device, the card will take the data, serialize it and output it for transmission over the SATA interface. It can control four independent SATA channels — each with its own SATA bus — and will support one SATA device.
The card supports SATA 100 and 300 transfer rates of 1.5 Gbps / 3 Gbps. It comes complete with drivers for Windows 2000, XP and Server 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 two, three or four 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.
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