Accusys eXpeRAID ACS-61000 Technical Specifications

PCI Express - Serial ATA II RAID Adapter

eXpeRAID® ACS-61000/ACS-61010

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The eXpeRAID® PCI Express™ to SATA2 

RAID adapters offer superior performance and 

comprehensive RAID functions for Windows, 

Linux, and Mac platforms with user-friendly 

Java-based GUI, RAIDGuard™ X. Built upon 

the latest Intel XScale® Technology-based I/O 

processor, the eXpeRAID adapters support 

RAID 6 for enterprise-class data protection. 

Supporting up to 16 SATA2 disk drives, the 

eXpeRAID adapters are well suited for various 

applications, such as video editing, digital 

surveillance, file servers, and shared storage.

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The eXpeRAID adapters deliver excellent 

performance with intelligent I/O processing 

and elaborated RAID algorithms. The 

controller can guarantee timely I/O response 

by bypassing slow disk drives and delivering 

requested data by fast online data rebuild. It 

streamlines the data transfer and sustains a 

stable throughput, so the controllers can 

smoothly handle heavy-loading and time-

critical applications. It also provides 

configurable optimization policies to support 

different workload.

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Featuring reliable RAID technologies, the 

eXpeRAID adapters protect data against not 

only disk drive failure but also bad sectors by 

online recovery and reallocation. In addition to 

online disk scrubbing for fixing the bad 

sectors, the controller also supports online 

data and parity refresh to proactively prevent 

data loss caused by media aging.

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The eXpeRAID adapters support snapshot, by 

which users can instantaneously create data 

images at different points of time. After a 

snapshot of LUN is created, the original LUN 

can still serve I/O requests normally, while the 

snapshot can be exported as an independent 

LUN for other hosts and applications. The 

snapshot helps to implement zero-down time 

backup scenario, and speed up backup 

operations. Users can also rely on snapshot 

for fast data restore or data mining.

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To support dynamics in ever-changing IT 

environments, the eXpeRAID adapters provide 

not only flexible RAID configurations but also 

extensive utilities to online change the RAID 

configurations. Users can easily expand the 

RAID capacity and repartition the RAID. It is 

also allowed to conduct RAID migration virtually 

from any to any.

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The innovative on-the-fly RAID initialization 

makes the RAID storage instantly available. The 

controller initializes the data areas hit by the 

host I/O access and maintains a table to track 

these areas. The subsequent I/O access and 

the background initialization task needs not to 

initialize these areas. This efficiently speeds up 

the initialization process and improves the 

performance during the initialization.

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The eXpeRAID adapters satisfy users of 

different backgrounds by offering a variety of 

management interfaces, including EFI CLI, 

BIOS UI, LCD panel, and Java-based GUI -- 

RAIDGuard™ X. Users can quickly set up RAID 

configurations within minutes, and remotely 

manage multiple RAID adapters from single 

console by the GUI. Together with friendly event 

browsing and email notification, RAIDGuard™ X 

can support a newbie to effortlessly enjoy the 

high-performance and reliable RAID storage as 

well as reduce the support cost of system 

integrators.

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In addition to commonly-used platforms, the 

eXpeRAID adapters also offer future-proof 

interoperability. It supports the next-generation 

BIOS, EFI, which is also a necessity on IA-

based Mac machines. It also supports Windows 

Storport driver, which enhances the 

performance and reliability on Windows 

platforms. Meanwhile, the GUI, RAIDGuard™ X, 

based on Java, can run on virtually all platforms.

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• PCI Express™ interface

• Support 4,8,12,16 3Gb/s SATA2 drives

• Up to 1GB DDR cache memory with BBM 

protection

• Configurable RAID levels: 0, 0+1, 5, 6, 

and JBOD

• Instant availability by on-the-fly RAID 

initialization

• Support over-2TB volumes

• Optimized for multiple-stream video 

processing

• Online RAID expansion and migration

• Online disk scrubbing and SMART 

monitoring

• Snapshot for fast backup and restore

• Certified for Windows Vista

• Designed for Windows logo certified

• Support Mac OS and Linux

• Support EFI and legacy BIOS

• Java-based GUI for remote management

• Reliable multi-lane MiniSAS connections