Apacer Technology AP-SRFD255AXXXXR-G - Manual (Page 8)

Serial ATA Flash Drive
AP-SRFD255AXXXXR-G
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© 2008 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev 0.2 (Preliminary)
2. Functions
2.1 Overview
Compatible with SATA Gen1 and Gen2 host controllers
OS independent, Driverless, Auto Configuration
FAST (RAID 0), SAFE (RAID 1) support
Embedded fast RAID Processor
Virtualization engine to simplify and improve utilization of storage devices
Ultra-fast 3Gbps host and device port capability
2.2 Intelligent SATA RAID Processor Unit
Automatic Failover in RAID 1 mode
Automatic Rebuild in RAID 1 mode
Automatic RAID mode configuration
100GB/hr Rebuild speed without Host CPU loading
High performance, reliability and simplicity with hardware RAID 0, 1 options
Virtualized multiple storage devices into one or many storage units, e.g. multi-drive spanning, drive
partitioning
High-speed, native SATA II connection to host and device
Device-to-device(s) copy to off-load host during rebuild
LED drivers for status reporting
Drive Splitting for multi-RAID partitions on a single volume with PM Aware Host
2.3 SATA
1x2 Port Multiplier Functionality
1.5Gpbs or 3Gpbs link rate with auto-negotiation
Supports hot plug, drive roaming
Supports host control of hard disk drive staggered spin-up
Host side NCQ support
2.4 Architecture
Features independent 8-KByte FIFO per Device Serial ATA channel for reads and writes
High Performance data movement between all SATA Generation 2 ports
Greater than 110MBps sustained reads in RAID 1 mode (limited by drives)
Support store and forwarding
2.5 Applications
PC
DVR
PVR
Video Editing Systems
eSATA Storage Target/Host