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Serial ATA 4-Channel RAID
Quick Installation Guide
04-0370D
Introducing the Serial ATA 4-Channel RAID
The Serial ATA 4-Channel RAID is an ultra high-speed
four channel Serial ATA controller for use in Pentium
class computers. It achieves burst data transfer rates up
to 150MB/s (1.5Gb/s) and supports various brands of
hard disk drives with capacities greater that 137GB.
Features and Benefits
• Compliant with Serial ATA Specification, revision
1.0
• Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2
• Provides four independent channels to support up
to four Serial ATA drives
• Co-exists with on-board Ultra ATA controller
• Supports 32-bit wide PCI bus at 66MHz
• Supports RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring) and
RAID 10 (mirroring+striping) RAID Arrays and
Single and JBOD modes
• Lower pin count and voltage requirement, plus
better cabling over traditional Parallel ATA make
Serial ATA the controller of the future
System Requirements
• Pentium
or equivalent computer with one available
PCI slot
• Windows
®
7 (32-/64-bit) / Vista (32-/64-bit) / XP
(32-/64-bit) / Server 2003 & 2008 (32-/64-bit) / 2000