Welcome; Sataraid Features - Silicon Image SATA RAID Manual

1 Welcome

Silicon Image's SATARaid
Mirroring) functionality to enhance the industry's leading PCI-to-SATA host controller products. Two major challenges facing
the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer systems by improving
disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures. With SiIicon Image Serial ATA host
controller and SATARaid, both of these problems are solved.
SATARaid software provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for easy-to-use configurations of the RAID Sets.

SATARaid Features

RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 Sets are supported
Under Win 2000 and XP only, RAID Sets can be created and deleted without exiting Windows
Hot Spare and On-line Mirror Rebuilding
System GUI Monitoring Utility:
Displays/Logs/Alerts Users to Vital RAID Set Information
Manages RAID Set Functions (configures, rebuilds, etc.,)
RAID Set Accommodates Multiple Size HDDs
HDDs Function Normally When Not in RAID Sets
Adjustable Stripe Size for RAID 0
Uses the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) feature in the attached drives for automatic
notification of imminent drive failures.
Can be configured to automatically email RAID Set system events and failure reports.
Automatically Selects Highest Available Transfer Speed for All ATA and ATAPI Devices. Supports the following:
UDMA up to 150MB/Sec.
All UDMA and PIO Modes
Up to 4 SATA devices
ACPI and ATA/ATAPI6
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software provides Serial ATA RAID0 (Striping), RAID1 (Mirroring) and RAID10 (Striping and
SATARaid User's Manual