
Serial ATA II (SATA II), the successor to SATA
technology for data storage, is a point-to-point connection that delivers
full throughput to each storage device by allowing multiple ports to be
managed by a single controller. Adaptec SATA II technology delivers data
transfer rates with 3 Gb/s while also supporting 1.5 Gb/s (SATA
I).
The Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 2420SA card is a
four-port controller that supports SATA or SATA II direct attached disk
drives. It features the Adaptec AIC-8210 SATA RAID-on-Chip (ROC) ASIC and
Adaptec RAID Code (ARC) with standard RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 as well as the
Adaptec Advanced Data Protection Suite with RAID 1E, 5EE, 6, Copyback Hot
Spare and optional Snapshot Backup. With the industry`s most advanced
feature set, the Adaptec 2420SA provides the highest level of data
protection.
The Adaptec Advanced Data
Protection Suite includes advanced RAID levels and
features:
- Hot Space (RAID 5EE)
- Striped Mirror (RAID 1E)
- Dual Drive Failure Protection
(RAID 6)
- Copyback Hot Spare
- Snapshot Backup (optional)