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PNY's Storage Processor is designed to be one component of your
comprehensive data protection strategy, which is especially suited
for multimedia, game and video content creation applications. PNY's
Storage Processor enables a new class of multimedia streaming and
acceleration using Serial ATA disk drives, and is also designed so
that it requires no new drivers to operate within a standard Windows®
XP/2000/2003 environment.
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| Advantages over traditional RAID |
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Windows Driverless |
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No performance loss during or after hard drive failure |
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Can hot-swap hard drives to upgrade or replace failed drives |
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Automatic rebuild of new hard drive while continuing to operate as normal |
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Uses less hard drives for a greater level of protection |
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Maximizes available hard drive space |
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Minimally tasks the CPU, even during drive failure |
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Fast / Easy Installation (simply "Plug-and-Play") |
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Allows the user to mix/match HDD configurations & Brands
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| Product Benefits |
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Driverless Windows® XP/2000/2003 install |
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uses industry standard built in OS-IDE drivers
avoids WHQL certification of drivers
OEM support greatly simplified
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Simple patch for current Linux versions - driverless in future kernel |
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Single touch auto-configuration |
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Zero additional time to set-up a full striped-parity performance RAID |
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15s longer than a single disk drive
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| System Requirements |
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Important notice for Windows® XP users: |
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If your array will be larger than 137GB, you must upgrade to Service Pack 2. |
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Windows® XP with Service Pack 1a or later, Windows® 2K with Service Pack 3 or later or Windows® 2003. Note: Windows® 95, 98 or ME are NOT supported. |
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Available 32 or 64-bit PCI or PCI-X slot |
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Serial ATA 150 MB/Sec compatible hard drives (minimum 3 for 3XL or 5 for 5XL array). to maximize total array size, all drives must be of the same capacity. |
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1.5MBytes of free system boot drive disk space for the configuration and management utility |
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Good quality Power Supply (350 Watts for a system with 3 drives, and 450 Watts for a system with 5 drives) and adequate cooling and air circulation is HIGHLY recommended.
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| Features and Specifications |
Note: The SR3000 and 5000 models do not support ATAPI devices such as CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives.
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| Host Bus Interface: |
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3V or 5V |
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PCI 2.2 compliant, 32 bit 33 or 66MHz for SR3000,3100,5103 |
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PCI 2.2 compliant, 64 bit 33 or 66MHz for SR5000 |
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Emulates standard IDE dual channel controller
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| Drive Interfaces Supported: |
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Serial ATA 150MB/sec
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| Industry Standards Supported: |
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ANSI T13.1321D/1410D
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| Drive/RAID Support: |
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JBOD (2 drives SR3000 series and 4 drives SR5000 series) |
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Synchronous RAID 0 striping (2 drives SR3000 series and 4 drives SR5000 series). This configuration does not provide fault tolerant protection. |
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RAID 1 mirror (2 drives) |
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RAID 3 striped parity (3 or 5 drives)
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| Storage Processor: |
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NC3000 (for SR3000 models) |
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NC5000 (for SR5000 models) |
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100% RAID offload from host CPU |
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800Mbytes/s internal 64bit DMA engines |
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Drive roaming using meta data |
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Auto failover on drive failure (XL mode) |
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Rebuild with low to high priority settings |
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Supports up to 4 logical host arrays A0-A3 (may be limited to 2 on early firmware BIOS releases)
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| Windows Management and Monitoring Utility: |
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Array creation, deletion and creation |
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Drive and array status reporting |
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Rebuild initiation |
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Array property setup |
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FLASH BIOS update floppy disk creation and Firmware download utility |
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Polling for drive or array errors, with poll setting |
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Email notification |
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Enable/Disable of INT13 (addresses some compatibility issues) |
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Enable/Disable of BIOS (addresses some compatibility issues) |
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Initialize of drives (clears arrays and makes all drives all un-initialized) |
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Status Notification to Windows Event Log |
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SMART monitoring of disk drives
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| Environmental: |
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Operating Temperature: 0oC to 50oC |
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Storage Temperature: -5oC to 70oC
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| Power: |
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Typical 5.5Watts
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| Package Contents: |
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PNY's Storage Processor 3000 or 5000 Series Serial ATA PCI adapter card |
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Quick Start User's Guide |
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3 or 5 Serial ATA cables |
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Auto-run CD with PNY's Storage Processor Configuration and Management Utility for Windows® XP/2000/2003
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