Gigabyte Network Device GA-7N400 User Manual download pdf (Page 4)

1. OVERVIEW

Product Overview

Silicon Image’s SATARaid

provides Serial ATA Software

RAID including Striping and Mirroring to enhance the

industry’s first proven PCI-to-SATA host controller product.

Two major challenges facing the storage industry today

are keeping pace with the increasing performance

demands of computer systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in

the face of hard disk failures. With the SiI 3112 / Sil 3512 Serial ATA host controller and SATARaid, both of

these problems are solved.

RAID Striping greatly improves hard disk I/O performance by concurrently Striping data across mul-

tiple drives. RAID Mirroring enables users to enjoy the confidence of data availability regardless of

a single disk failure as data is simultaneously written to two drives.

Standard with SATARaid software is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that provides easy-to-use configu-

rations for the different RAID Sets supported.

SATARaid Features

• RAID 0 and 1

• Hot Spare and On-line Mirror Rebuilding

• System GUI Monitoring Utility:

- Displays/Logs/Alerts Users to Vital RAID Set Information

- Manages RAID Set Functions (configures, rebuilds, etc.)

• RAID Set Accommodates Multiple Size HDDs

• HDDs Function Normally When Not in RAID Sets

• Adjustable Stripe Size for RAID 0

• Automatically Selects Highest Available Transfer Speed for All ATA and ATAPI Devices

• Supports:

- UDMA up to 150MB/Sec.

- All UDMA and PIO Modes

- Up to 2 SATA devices

- ACPI and ATA/ATAPI6

SATA RAID Function

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