Manhattan 176767 User Manual

SATA 150 RAID CONTROLLER PCI CARD
USER MANUAL
Model 176767
MAN-176767-UM-1007-01
INTRODUCTION
Thank you for purchasing this MANHATTAN® SATA 150 RAID Controller PCI Card, Model 176767. The easy-to-follow instructions in this manual help make installation of the card quick and simple, so you’ll also soon be enjoying the benets of these features:
• Easily adds two internal SATA 150 ports, each supporting SATA 150 data transfer rates of up to 1.5 Gbps
• Provides RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring)
• Low-prole form factor
• Plug and Play; hot-swappable; Windows compatible
• Lifetime Warranty
System Requirements
• Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista
• Available punch-out and PCI slots
Package Contents
• SATA 150 RAID Controller PCI Card
• Regular and low-prole brackets
• Quick install guide/user manual and driver CD
IMPORTANT: Prior to controller card installation, read the SATA RAID manual on the enclosed CD in the folder: \SATA Raid_2Port\ SiI3x12\Win98_me_2000_xp _nt4.0\Gui. This RAID manual has more information about RAID architecture, features, installation and settings, plus management software for RAID GUI (graphical user interface).
After driver installation, if desired, install SATA RAID GUI for RAID management. Before SATA RAID GUI installation, you must remove all the existing SATA RAID GUI (or Java SATA RAID GUI) to ensure your new SATA RAID 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 GUI setting under Windows.
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Features
This MANHATTAN SATA 150 RAID Controller PCI Card is a PCI-to­dual-SATA host controller board that provides a 32-bit, 33/66 MHz PCI interface on the hose side and dual, fully compliant SATA ports on the device side to access SATA storage devices.
The card can upgrade your desktop computer to have dual SATA channels and support RAID 0 and RAID 1 features. It accepts host commands through the PCI bus, processes them and transfers data between the host and SATA 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 two independent SATA channels — each with its own SATA bus — and will support one SATA device. The card supports a SATA 100 transfer rate of 1.5 Gbps. It comes complete with drivers for Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003.
RAID
RAID (redundant array of independent disks) technology manages multiple disk drives to enhance I/O performance and provide redundancy in order to withstand the failure of any individual member without loss of data.
This card provides two RAID set types: Striped (RAID 0) and Mirrored
(RAID 1).
Disk Striping (RAID 0)
Striping is a performance-oriented, non-redundant data-mapping technique. While mentioned as a R AID set type, it actually doesn’t provide fault tolerance. With modern SATA bus-mastering technology, multiple I/O operations can be done in parallel, enhancing performance. Striping arrays use multiple disks to form a larger virtual disk.
Disk Mirroring (RAID 1)
Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks. This redundancy provides
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