Serial ATA interface is not just a convenient replacement for the good old parallel UltraATA (IDE) in desktop computers. A noticeable share of Serial ATA devices is intended for professional use. It should even force out some other more expensive interfaces from the market of entry-level professional storage devices. It's favored both by higher performance of SATA versus PATA as well as by its expanded functionality, which gets close to SCSI features to some degree. Among other things, a very useful feature is the hot-swap function of storage drives, initially built into the SATA interface. In this connection, Adaptec, Inc, a distinguished manufacturer of controllers and data storage systems, made a natural step at the end of 2004 - it launched a kit consisting of the middle-end four-port SATA RAID controller AAR-2410SA (which had appeared on the market before this kit) and a enclosure for four SATA hard disks. This system (with RAID 5 and hot swap support) is called Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 2410SA Enclosure Kit. In this article we are going to review its main features.
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Dec 20, 2005, 06:14 PM
