User manual IOGEAR GPEN300 QUICK START GUIDE FOR MAC

[. . . ] The board supports Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rates of 1. 5 Gb/s (150 MB/s). 5 Features PCI Interface · Compliant with PCI Specifications, Revision 2. 2. High Speed Serial ATA Interface · Four high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation Serial ATA data rates (1. 5Gb/s). · RAID 5 (Distributed Parity RAID) has Highest Read data transaction rate and Good aggregate transfer rate. · Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives. [. . . ] While Striping is discussed as a RAID Set type, it actually does not provide fault tolerance. With modern SATA bus technology, multiple I/O operations can be done in parallel, enhancing performance. Disk Mirroring (RAID 1) Disk mirroring creates an identical twin for a selected disk by having the data simultaneously written to two disks. This redundancy provides instantaneous protection from a single disk failure. If a read failure occurs on one drive, the system simply reads the data from the other drive. 8 Mirrored-Striping (RAID 0+1 also known as RAID 10) A Mirrored-Striping Set does just what it says, combining both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring. When data is written to a Mirrored-Striped Set, instead of creating just one virtual disk as Striping would do, a second Mirrored virtual disk is created as well. Parity RAID (RAID 5) Parity or RAID 5 adds fault tolerance to Disk Striping by including parity information with the data. Parity RAID dedicates the equivalent of one disk for storing parity stripes. The data and parity information is arranged on the disk array so that parity references are written to different disks. Parity RAID uses less capacity for protection and is the preferred method to reduce the cost per megabyte for larger installations. Mirroring requires 100% increase in capacity to protect the data whereas the above example only requires a 50% increase. Press `S' when setup asks if you want to specify an additional device. Press `Enter' and select `[CD Drive Letter]:\RAID5 SATA_4Port \SiI3114\ Win XP_2000_2003\Driver'. Follow the setup instructions to select your choice for partitions and the file system. After setup examines your disks, it will copy files to the Windows installation folders and restart the system. The setup program will continue and finish the installation after restart. Wait until Windows finishes installing devices, regional settings, networking settings, and components. Reboot the system if it is stated as a requirement. 18 Windows XP Existing Installation 1. Insert the controller card into a PCI slot and connect the hard drives to the controller card. During OS boot up, Windows will display the `Found New Hardware Wizard'. Select `Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)' and Click `Next'. 19 4. Insert the Driver CD in your CD-ROM/DVD drive, check Specify a location, uncheck the other boxes, click Next, type in your CD-ROM/DVD Drive Letter and Click Browse. [. . . ] Left click on the `Hardware' tab then select the `Device Manager' button. Double click on `SCSI and RAID Controllers', If there is no yellow `!' or `?' in front of the `Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRAID5 Controller', the driver is functioning properly. 21 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement 15. 21 You are cautioned that changes or modifications not expressly approved by the part responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. 15. 105(b) This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. [. . . ]