User Manual
Table Of Contents
- ROMB User Manual
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Installation
- Chapter 3: Installing Drivers
- Chapter 4: RAID Management Utility
- Chapter 5: WebPAM
- Logging into WebPAM
- Logging out of WebPAM
- Managing Users
- Viewing Host Management
- Making Utility Configuration Settings
- Managing the Controller
- Managing Physical Drives
- Managing Logical Drives
- Viewing All Logical Drives
- Creating a Logical Drive
- Creating a JBOD Disk
- Deleting a Logical Drive or JBOD Disk
- Viewing Logical Drive Information
- Making Logical Drive Settings
- Migrating a Logical Drive
- Rebuilding a Logical Drive
- Synchronizing a Logical Drive
- Viewing Logical Drive Initialization
- Activating a Logical Drive
- Responding to a Critical or Offline Logical Drive
- Managing Spare Drives
- Chapter 6: Technology
- Chapter 7: Support
- Appendix A: Partition and Format
- Appendix B: Upgrades
- Index
Software ROMB User Manual
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Product Overview
Promise designed the Software ROMB as cost-effective, high performance RAID
solution that increases PC and Server performance by reducing the CPU
utilization rate.
The Software ROMB supports the following RAID levels:
• Stripe (RAID 0) – Identical drives can read and write data in parallel to
increase performance.
• Mirror (RAID 1) – Mirror increases read performance through load balancing
and elevator sorting while creating a complete backup of your files.
• Block Striping with Distributed Parity (RAID 5) – Organizes data and
distributes parity across the physical drives to increase performance and
provide fault tolerance to protect your data.
• Mirror/Stripe (RAID 10) – Combines RAID 0 and RAID 1 to increase
performance by reading and writing data in parallel while protecting data with
duplication.
• JBOD – A single, non-array drive. You can assign multiple drives as JBOD.
• SPAN – Concatenates the capacity of up to six physical drives into one
logical drive.
Feature Support
The Software ROMB supports the following features:
• SATA devices • SSD devices
• Multiple arrays per drive • Gigabyte rounding
• 2 TB logical drives • Auto rebuilds
• Background rebuilds • Online capacity expansion
• RAID level migration • Disk drive hot swapping
• Hot spare drives • SMART
• Full erase • Drive roaming among channels
• SNMP • Serial ATAPI
• WebPAM software • Pass through I/O control
• Virtualization • Non-volitile RAM*
• SGPIO* • Cache battery backup*
* Requires hardware support on the motherboard.