
SATAIII PCI-E RAID Controller Card - RC-230- User’s Manual
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Hardware
Thank you for purchasing Rosewill’s RC-230 SATAIII PCI-E RAID Controller Card
with 4 SATA ports and 2 eSATA ports. This board is a single-chip, PCI Express to
four SATA Gen III 6Gbps 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
6Gbps while providing backward compatibility to legacy SATA 1.5Gbps or 3Gbps
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. 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, HyperDuo.
1.1 Key Features
Marvell Chipset
Compliant with PCI-Experss Specification v2.0 and backward compatible with
PCI-Express 1.x
Compliant with Serial ATA Specification 3.0
PCI Express x2 interface, and compatible with PCI Express x4, x8 and x16 slots
Supports communication speeds of 6.0Gbps, 3.0Gbps, and 1.5Gbps
Hot plug and Hot Swap
Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Supports Port Multiplier FIS based switching or command based switching
Max. 4 HDDs to PM for individual drive configuration
Compatible with SATA 6G, 3G and 1.5G Hard Drives
Support RAID function: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and HyperDuo
Supports 48-bit LBA, maximum HDD size can be support are up to 144,000TB.
Supports ATA and ATAPI command and works with SATA Optical Drives.
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