User`s guide

INTRODUCTION
Storage Appliance
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Product Overview
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The storage function of RAID is used to introduce on industrial field which means With expensive and
expert maintain needed. For the personal computer and small office or home office field, Such a
requiring just never satisfied but with the Data Marshalling This is just a part of its all.
The BT-3045 Data Marshalling System is a cost-effective and ready-to-use storage appliance powered
by Silicon Image's industry-leading storage processor, providing enhanced data protection,
high-performance storage, and plug-and-play functionality. The BT-3045 Data Marshalling System is a
simple and affordable solution for SOHO or personal users to replicate data and keep data secure.
Volumes can be created with mirrored drives providing automated data protection along with
notifications when a drive needs replacement.
The BT-3045 Data Marshalling System has preconfigured setups so that you don't need any
experience on storage network administrator or prior knowledge of physical disk drives to configure
the System. Meanwhile, being an experienced user, you may also configure BT-3045 manually to suit
your best need. You can always use BT-3045 Controller Configuration Utility to monitor or reconfigure
the Data Marshalling System. The guided configuration utility helps you set up and maintain the best
possible configuration. You can configure the multi-functional BT-3045 Data Marshalling System to
support standard business applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server or SQL database with
separate mirrored volumes for log files and databases.
For demanding performance applications such as video/audio editing, digital imaging, sophisticated
data processing or just the fastest gaming platform in town, the BT-3045 Data Marshalling System can
be preconfigured as a striped disk array, simultaneously accessing two or four drives for blazing disk
performance.
The BT-3045 Data Marshalling System adopts Silicon Image's industry-leading Serial Advanced
Technology Attachment (SATA) which supersedes the Parallel, Ultra ATA/100 interface, improving the
performance from 100 MB/sec to a data transfer rate of 150 MB/sec with SATA Gen1 and 300 MB/sec
with SATA Gen2. Populated with five SATA drives, the BT-3045 Data Marshalling System stores as
much as 2 terabytes of data. And with the next-generation SATA II technology, the BT-3045 Data
Marshalling System grants 3 GB/sec SATA II capability and provides even more new features such as
native command queuing and hot plugging.