Introduction

Adaptec's SATA zero-channel RAID card offers the ideal solution for customers who want an affordable, flexible upgrade path to advanced RAID. The Adaptec SATA RAID cards provide an affordable, high performance solution to businesses requiring data protection. Its low profile form factor is ideal for workstations and high-density server environments.

The Adaptec SATA RAID 2020SA card takes advantage of the system motherboard's existing Serial ATA I/O channels by using complimentary logic designed on the motherboard. This innovative approach reduces the cost of the RAID card by eliminating the need for a SATA I/O chip on the RAID card. The Adaptec 2020SA SATA ZCR card offers high-speed throughput, scalability, space-saving features, and a cost-effective upgrade path to a full-featured hardware RAID solution.

Features

• 400 MHz IOP Performance
  
• Full featured hardware RAID
  
• Unique form factors ideal for high-density server environments
  
• Adds advanced RAID functionality to onboard Adaptec SATA
  
• Consumes considerably less power than comparable four and eight port RAID cards
  
• Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, and JBOD
  
• Simplifies array management with easy-to-use Adaptec Storage Manager software (ASM)
  
• Intel EM64-T and AMD-64 ready
  

Specifications

Customer Needs
Ideal for PCI-based Intel architecture based servers and workstations implementing Adaptec Serial ATA on motherboard solution.

System Environment
Ideal for Intel-based servers and workstations implementing Adaptec SATA zero-port RAID

Benefits
# Affordable, low-profile RAID design easily upgrades onboard Serial ATA to RAID
# Offloads host system RAID functionality and provides higher security and data availability

Key Differentiators
# Optimized Disk Utilization
# RAID Level Migration
# Online capacity expansion
# Background initialization (for immediate RAID availability)
# Hot-swap disk drive support for easy replacement
# Hot-spare disk support with automatic rebuild
# Supports bootable arrays

Data Transfer Rate
Up to 300 MB/s per port (150 MB/s with SATA I motherboards, 300MB/s with SATAII motherboards)

Bus Type
64-bit/ 66 MHz PCI

System Requirements
Intel PC or equivalent with PCI slot supporting Adaptec Embedded RAID Logic (EMRL) or Intel RAIDIOS logic

Package Contains
* Adaptec SATA Zero Channel RAID 2020SA card
* Low-profile bracket

Software in package:
* Adaptec Storage Manager - SNMP support
* BIOS configuration utility

Warranty
3 years

RAID levels
0, 1, 10, 5, 50, JBOD

Cache memory
64 MB onboard ECC DDR Memory

Key RAID features
* Online capacity expansion
* Background initialization (for immediate RAID availability)
* S.M.A.R.T. support
* Hot-swap disk drive support for easy replacement
* Hot-spare disk support with automatic rebuild
* Supports bootable arrays

Board Dimensions
Low-profile: 2.5in H x 6.6in L
6.25cm H x 16.5cm L

Power Requirements
1 amp @ 3.3V

Operating Temperature
0° to 55° C