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ntroduction
The ICH10R provdes a hybrd soluton that combnes 6 ndependent SATAII ports for
support of up to 6 Seral ATAII (Seral ATAII RAID) drves.
Seral ATAII (SATAII) s the latest generaton of the ATA nterface. SATA hard drves
delver blsterng transfer speeds up to 3 Gb/s. Seral ATA uses long, thn cables, mak-
ng t easer to connect your drve and mprovng the arflow nsde your PC. The most
outstandng features are:
1. Supports 3 Gb/s transfers wth CRC error checkng.
2. Supports Hot-plug-n-play feature.
3. Data handlng optmzatons ncludng tagged command queung, elevator seek and
packet chan command.
Intel ICH10R offers RAID level 0 (Strpng), RAID level 1 (Mrrorng and Duplexng),
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RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Dstrbuted Party), RAID level 10 (A Strpe of Mrrors) ,
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RAID 0 breaks the data nto blocks whch are wrtten to separate hard drves. Spread-
ng the hard drve I/O load across ndependent channels greatly mproves I/O perfor-
mance.
RAID 1 provdes data redundancy by mrrorng data between the hard drves and pro-
vdes enhanced read performance.
RAID 5 Provdes data strpng at the byte level and also strpe error correcton nforma-
ton. Ths results n excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Level 5 s one of the
most popular mplementatons of RAID.
RAID 10 Not one of the orgnal RAID levels, multple RAID 1 mrrors are created, and a
RAID 0 strpe s created over these.
Intel Matrx RAID Technology s the advanced ablty for two RAID volumes to share the
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combned space of two hard drves beng used n unson.
Intel Rapd Recover Technology utlzes RAID 1 functonalty to copy data from a des-
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gnated Master drve to a desgnated Recovery drve. The sze of the Master drve must
be less than or equal to the sze of the Recovery drve. When a Recovery volume s
created, complete capacty of the Master drve wll be used as the Master volume. Only
one Recovery Volume can exst on a system. There are 2 methods of updatng the
data on the Master to the Recovery drve. They are Contnuous Update Polcy and On
Request Update Polcy.
Important
The least number of hard drves for RAID 0, RAID 1, Recovery or Matrx mode s 2. The
least number of hard drves for RAID 10 mode s 4. And the least number of hard drves
for RAID 5 mode s 3.
All the nformaton/ volumes/ pctures lsted n your system mght dffer from the llustra-
tons n ths appendx.
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