Areca ARC-8050T3U 6-Bay Thunder3 Desktop RAID Storage Array - Manual (Page 98)

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quently, this can prevent a pause in data flow and there will
be continued data access and stream. This feature is very
useful for the video streaming applications where there is high
demand for constant non-stop data flow with no interruption
due to lower performance of specific hardware.
• Read Ahead Count
The Read Ahead count is used to define how many times (1,
2, 3, ….., 10) of the “Amount of Read Ahead X Read Ahead
Requests“ data reading at a time. Default value is Auto: Con-
troller will base on the HDD number to set the amount of Read
Ahead Count value. You can select between Auto, 1, 2, ….. or
10.
• Read Ahead Requests
The Read Ahead Requests is used to define how many times
(1, 2, 3) of the “Amount of Read Ahead “ data reading at a
time. Default value is 1. You can select between 1, 2, or 3.
• Amount of Read Ahead
Read-Ahead data is buffered in the RAID controller cache,
however, thereby cutting down on the amount of I/O traffic to
the disk. The Amount of Read Ahead defines how many data
of reading at a time, making more efficient use of the RAID
storage. This makes it possible to locate and re-issue the data
without repetitive hard parsing activities.
The Amount of Read Ahead parameter is used to allocate
an amount of memory in the cache memory the frequently
executed queries and return the result set back to the host
without real disk read execution. Default value is Auto: Con-
troller will base on the HDD number to set the amount of Read
Ahead value. You can select between 512KB ~ 16MB.
• Number of AV Stream
RAID controllers are required to have not only the function of
processing ordinary data but also the function of dealing with
AV (audio/video) stream data needing real-time processing.
Since the bus cycle used in RAID controller was designed to
transfer the computer data exactly, it was unsuitable for the
transfer of AV stream needing great band widths. They are
required to do some setting for the handshaking during the