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Thank you for purchasing the MANHATTAN
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ATA 133 RAID PCI Express Card, Model 160537.
Compliant with PCI Express 1.0a specifications, this card supports UDMA6 data transfer rates
of up to 133 MBps and full-speed burst transfers on the ATA bus. Using 48-bit LBA, it breaks the
size limit of 137 GB hard drives to support larger storage devices.
INTRoDUCTIoN
This ATA 133 RAID PCI Express Card (also known as a low-profile ultra ATA-133 RAID PCIe
host adapter) is a controller board that supports both low-profile and regular-size PCI in one
card.
The card can upgrade your desktop computer with dual ultra ATA-133 channels and the ability
to support RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD features. It comes complete with drivers for Windows
2000, XP and Server 2003.
RAID (redundant array of independent disks) greatly enhances two main areas of data storage:
performance and data integrity. By using RAID 0, also known as "Striping," performance of
sustained data transfer rates is greatly enhanced by simultaneously writing data to two, three or
four drives. The second benefit of RAID is data redundancy. RAID 1 (Mirroring) writes identical
data on two drives or sets of drives, thus protecting the data from a disk failure. If for any
reason, one drive were to fail, your data is secure and available from the mirrored second
drive.