Areca ARC-1110 User Manual

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be dynamically rescheduled or re-ordered, along with the neces-

sary tracking mechanisms for outstanding and completed por-

tions of the workload. The SATA RAID controller allows the user 

to choose the SATA Mode: SATA150, SATA150+NCQ, SATA300, 

SATA300+NCQ.

 

Allow Read Ahead (Default: Enabled)—When Enabled, the drive’

s  read  ahead  cache  algorithm  is  used,  providing  maximum 

performance under most circumstances.

In a PC system with only one or two drives, the power can sup-

ply enough power to spin up both drives simultaneously. But in 

systems with more than two drives, the startup current from 

spinning up the drives all at once can overload the power sup-

ply, causing damage to the power supply, disk drives and other 

system components. This damage can be avoided by allowing 

the host to stagger the spin-up of the drives. New SATA drives 

have support staggered spin-up capabilities to boost reliability. 

Staggered spin-up is a very useful feature for managing multiple 

disk drives in a storage subsystem. It gives the host the abil-

ity to spin up the disk drives sequentially or in groups, allowing 

the drives to come ready at the optimum time without straining 

the system power supply. Staggering drive spin-up in a multiple 

drive environment also avoids the extra cost of a power supply 

designed to meet short-term startup power demand as well as 

steady state conditions. 

Controller I/O Port:F3000000h, F2: Select Controller, F10: Reboot System

ArrowKey Or AZ:Move Cursor, Enter: Select, ESC: Escape, L:Line Draw, X: Redraw

Areca Technology Corporation RAID Controller

Main Menu

Quick Volume/Raid Setup

Raid Set Function

Volume Set Function

Physical Drives

Raid System Function

Ethernet Configuration

View System Events

Clear Event Buffer

Hardware Monitor

System information

Raid System Function

Raid System Function

Mute The Alert Beeper

Alert Beeper Setting

Change Password

JBOD/RAID Function

Background Task Priority

Maximum SATA Mode

HDD Read Aead Cache

Stagger Power on

Empty HDD slot LED

HDD SMART Status Polling

Controller Fan Detection

Disk Write Cache Mode

Capacity Truncation

HDD Read Ahead Cache

HDD Read Ahead Cache

             Enabled             

             Disable Maxtor

             Disabled

            Enabled