Intel SRCS16 Hardware User Guide - Page 14

Chapter 1 Overview This section provides a general overview of the Intel® RAID Controller SRCS16. It consists of the following sections. • Section 1.1, "Overview," page 14 • Section 1.2, "Features," page 14 • Section 1.3, "Hardware," page 15 1.1 Overview The RAID Controller SRCS16 provides a high-performance Intelligent Peripheral Component Interconnect to High Speed Serialized AT Attachment (PCI-to-Serial ATA) interface with Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) control capabilities. Serial ATA RAID controllers provide reliability, high performance, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management. You can install the RAID Controller SRCS16 on a PCI bus and use it to connect Serial ATA drives to the host computer over a Serial ATA bus. The RAID Controller SRCS16 is an ideal RAID solution for internal storage on workgroup, departmental, and enterprise systems. SATA RAID controllers offer a cost-effective way to implement RAID in a server. The RAID Controller SRCS16 supports all major operating systems, such as Microsoft* Windows* XP, Microsoft* Windows* 2000, Microsoft* Windows Server* 2003, Novell* NetWare* 6.5, Red Hat* Linux* 9.0, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 3.0, and SuSE* Linux* 9.0. Note: The operating systems supported by this controller may not be supported by your server board. Please refer to the tested OS list for your server board. 1.2 Features Features of the RAID Controller SRCS16 include: • Support for hard disk drives with capacities greater than 8 Gbytes • Online RAID level migration • RAID remapping • No reboot necessary after expansion • User-specified rebuild rate • Support for RAID levels 0 (striping), 1 (mirroring), 5 (striping and parity data across all drives), 10 (mirroring and striping), and 50 (RAID 5 and striping) • Advanced array configuration and management utilities • NVRAM for storing RAID system configuration information and Configuration on Disk (COD); the firmware is stored in flash ROM for easy upgrade Intel® RAID Controller SRCS16 14