User manual

What is eSATA 6Gb/s?
eSATA stands for External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. eSATA 6Gb/s (revision 3.0) is the latest SATA
standard at the time of this printing, and provides data transfer rates up to 6Gb/s (600MB/s) for external storage
devices.
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RAID 0 “Stripe”
Speed & Large Storage
Speed: Data is alternated across two or more drives to gain
speed by essentially distributing the workload.
Protection: No built-in protection.
Capacity: Usable space is the combined capacity of all the drives.
RAID 1 “Mirror”
Protected Storage
Speed: No speed benets gained.
Protection: One drive can go down and all data will still be
accessible.
Capacity: One drive worth of usable space out of the two total
drives used.
RAID 10 “Mirror + Stripe”
Fast, Large, & Protected Storage
Speed: Combines a pair of RAID 1 “Mirrored” sets by using RAID 0
“Striping” to gain speed.
Protection: There are two RAID 1 “Mirrored” sets used in order to
to tolerate 1 or 2 drives failing, depending on where the drives
are positioned in the array.
Capacity: Usable space is half of the combined capacity of all the
drives used.
RAID 5 “Stripe & Protection”
Optimized Speed, Capacity, & Protection
Speed: Data is striped like in a RAID 0, so signicant speed gains
are seen.
Protection: Utilizes mathematical parity to achieve data
protection while taking up a minimum of space.
Capacity: All but one drive worth of capacity is usable. In a four
drive RAID 5 array, there is three drives worth of usable space.
What is RAID?
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Drives. Put simply, this means taking multiple matching drives
and arranging them together to achieve large storage space, speed, data protection, or any combination of the
three. The MAXPower RAID eSATA 6G-4e PCIe 2.0 Controller Card supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 levels as well as
supporting JBOD (SPAN and individual drive modes).
MAXPower RAID eSATA 6G-4e PCIe 2.0 Card
Utilizing the latest eSATA 6Gb/s technology, the MAXPower RAID eSATA 6G-4e card is the ideal choice for high-
speed, ecient, low-cost, RAID capable connectivity for the Mac or PC.
MAXPower RAID eSATA 6G-4e Features:
• SHI (Storage Health Inspector) for the monitoring
and reporting of drive health
• Compatible with SATA based hard disk drives and
solid state drives
• 3 year warranty
• PCIe 2.0 x4 (2GB/s bandwidth)
• Compatible with PCIe 1.0 (1GB/s
bandwidth)
• Four eSATA 6Gb/s ports (600MB/s per port)
• eSATA Hot Plug Support
• Port Multiplier support for up to 20 drives
• RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10, SPAN and individual drive
support
• Convenient browser-based management
Part 1: Introduction
Newer Technology MAXPower RAID eSATA 6G-4e