Vantec UGT-ST644R User Guide - Page 3

UGT-ST644R

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Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Product Introduction

This board is a single-chip, PCI Express to four SATA Gen III 6Gb/s

channels host controller that brings server-class features to the desktop.

This board enables the use of the industry’s newest and fastest hard

drives at 6Gb/s while providing backward compatibility to legacy

SATA 1.5Gb/s or 3Gb/s drives. It uses the same cable and connectors

as previous SATA generations to ease integration. Besides, PCI Express

2.0 double the bandwidth of the existing PCI Express bus for faster

data throughput. It will enhance system performance for every type of

computer user. Each PCI-Express 2.0 lane provides up to 500MB/s of

throughput. It is also backward compatible with previous generation of

PCI Express 1.0 technology.

Using the onboard RAID firmware, the 4 SATA drives attached to this

controller can be easily configured as 4 individual ports with no RAID

or with RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, and HyperDuo.

1.2 Features

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Compliant with PCI-Express Specification v2.0 and backward

Section	Page
Chapter 1: Introduction	2
1.1 Product Introduction	3
1.2 Features	3
1.3 System Requirements	4
1.4 Package Contents	4
Chapter 2: Getting Started	5
2.1 Hardware Layout	5
2.2 Hardware Installation	7
2.3 Creating and Managing Virtual Disk	7
2.3.1 Creating Virtual Disks	7
2.3.2 Managing Virtual Disks	13
2.4 Driver Installation	22

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