Sans Digital ELITERAID ER104UT+(B), Detailed User'S Manual

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WELCOME 

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INTRODUCTION 

Thank you for choosing 

EliteRAID ER104UT(-B) 

storage appliance. It is a hardware RAID solution for digital home and small 

office storage appliances. Features of the 

EliteRAID ER104UT(-B) 

include advanced RAID modes. Simply connect the 

appliance with an appropriate USB or eSATA cable to the USB host or PCIe 1x controller card. eSATA bracket cable is 
provided to connect to motherboard if no PCIe slot avaliable. 
The 

EliteRAID ER104UT(-B) 

storage appliance are available in eight different configurations (Clean, Large, Clone, R0, R1, R10, 

R3 and R5), each offering a different application of features and capabilities. 
The 

EliteRAID ER104UT(-B) 

Storage Processors are powered by hardware RAID chip, 1 to 5-ports Serial ATA II Port 

Multiplier with RAID function support. It is designed to provide SATA port expansion, data protection and performance 
aggregation at various applications. It is a self-contained storage processor chip which completely frees up the main CPU 
loading and the SATA ports comply with eSATA specification, the USB ports comply with Hi-Speed USB specification, 
making it suitable for use in external storage applications. 
The

 EliteRAID ER104UT(-B) 

storage appliance uses industry-proven Multi-port Serial ATA PHY technology and proprietary 

storage processor to provide very high efficient SATA RAID operation. 
With an easy configuration scheme, the device can be a pure port-multiplier which provides SATA port expansion just like 
a SATA Hub, or hard-drive performance booster which provides a high performance device seen by host controller or 
hard-drive data protector which automatically backup data to prevent data loss from hard-drive damage. 

EliteRAID 

ER104UT(-B) 

storage appliance also has advance mode to provide both benefit of performance boost and data protection.  

The 

EliteRAID ER104UT(-B) 

storage appliance architecture which provides:  

• Fully hardware-accelerated RAID Engine. 
• No driver, BIOS or software required for RAID operation.  
• Independent of device SATA port connection sequence. 
• Rebuild proceeds continuously between power cycling.  
• Supports on-line read data integrity check.  
• Supports on-line command based bad sector recovery.  
• Supports disk modes: Clean, Large, Clone. 
• Supports RAID levels: 0, 1, 3, 5, 10. 
• RAID 3 / 5 write-back cache to enhance performance. 
• Supports Auto-Rebuild on Clone, R1, R3, R5, R10. 
• Supports Hot-Spare on Clone, R1, R3, R5. 
• Rebuild speed: 200GB/hour. 
• Supports various RAID configuration methods.