Lindy 70536 - Manual (Page 2)

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1. Introduction
This Low Profile PCI Host Adapter is a PCI controller board to support Low profile PCI
and regular size PCI both in one card. The card can upgrade your desktop computer to
have 2 ports Serial ATA to support RAID 0 / RAID 1 features, and five USB2.0 / USB1.1
ports.
The board supports a 32-bit 33 MHz PCI bus revision 2.2, USB transfer rate of 1.5Mb/s,
12Mb/s, 480Mb/s and Serial ATA Generation 1 transfer rate of 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s).
SATA port can access SATA storage media such as hard disk drive, Zip drive, CD-ROM,
CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM.
It comes with drivers for Windows.
RAID, Redundant Array of Independent Disks, greatly enhances two main areas of data
storage: performance and data integrity. By using RAID 0, also known as Striping,
performance of sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously
writing data to 2 drives. The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1,
Mirroring, writes identical data on two drives, thus protecting the data from a disk failure. If,
for any reason, one drive were to fail, your data is secure and available from the mirrored
second drive.
1.1. Features
1.1.1. PCI Interface
Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2.
32 bit, 33MHz fully compliant PCI host interface.
Integrated PCI DMA engines.
1.1.2. High Speed Serial ATA Interface
Dual high speed serial ATA interface ports, each supporting 1st generation
Serial ATA data rates. (1.5Gb/s)
Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data
transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives.