User manual IOGEAR GVS881 QUICK START

[. . . ] The board allows you the options of setting up GVS881, RAID 0+1, RAID 0, or RAID 1 as well as JBOD within your system. 6 Features · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · External SATA II (eSATA) Connector. 48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB. Completely with drivers for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives. [. . . ] 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. 9 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 (GVS881) Parity or GVS881 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. The required capacity decreases as the number of disks in the group increases. 10 Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD/Contiguous) JBOD (also known as Contiguous) means a logical drive that can either be an entire disk drive or a segment of a single disk drive. 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. 19 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'. 20 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. Specify the following location: [CD Drive Letter]:\SATA PCIe_Raid5_2Port\ SiI3132\ Windows\Driver. When the wizard indicates that it found a driver for the device click `Next'. [. . . ] Double click on `SCSI and RAID Controllers', If there is no yellow `!' or `?' in front of the `Silicon Image SiI 3132 SoftRaid5 Controller', the driver is functioning properly. 22 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. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. [. . . ]