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SATA 150 RAID
CONTROLLER
PCI CARD
USER
MANUAL
Model 176767
MAN-176767-UM-1007-01
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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 benets 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-prole 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-prole 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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