Areca ARC-1110 User Manual

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A user can set the “Disk Write Cache Mode” to: Auto, Enabled, 

or Disabled.

SATA RAID controllers use drive truncation so that drives from 

differing vendors are more likely to be able to be used as spares 

for each other. Drive truncation slightly decreases the usable 

capacity of a drive that is used in redundant units.

The controller provides three truncation modes in the system 

configuration: Multiples Of 10G, Multiples Of 1G, and No 

Truncation.

Multiples Of 10G: If you have 120 GB drives from different 

vendors; chances are that the capacity varies slightly. For exam-