User Guide

CONTENTS
Important ............................................................. 1
Welcome! .............................................................. 5
Product Registration for Warranty Coverage .... 7
Precautions .......................................................... 8
Package Contents ................................................ 9
System Requirements ....................................... 10
AcomData E5 SATA Drive at a Glance ............... 11
PCI Cards at a Glance ......................................... 12
Features Explored .............................................. 13
Serial ATA ...................................................................................13
Hot-Pluggable .........................................................................14
Fanless Design .........................................................................14
Plug & Play Setup ...................................................................14
Mac & PC Ready ......................................................................14
Hardware Command Queuing ........................................15
Hardware Direct Memory Access .....................................15
Hardware RAID Acceleration ..............................................15
RAID Manager .........................................................................15
Specifications ..................................................... 16
E5 SATA External Hard Drive ...............................................16
SATA PCI Host Bus Adapter Card .......................................17
Installing the PCI Card ....................................... 18
Installing the Software ...................................... 23
Setting up the Drive .......................................... 28
Choosing an Orientation ....................................................28