Controller iWill RAID 100

Iwill USA Corporation has announced the arrival of its next generation IDE RAID technology, the SIDE®-RAID 100™ controller card designed for long-term upgrade in improving performance, storage capacity, and security of Ultra ATA100 hard drives.

SIDE®-RAID 100™ is certain to be a winner for end-users and small business owners, as it expands from its award-winning SIDE®-RAID 66™ series. SIDE®-RAID 100™ not only offers RAID 0, 1, and 0+1, functions that add improvement to overall performance and security, but also offers JBOD (Just a Bunch of Drives), a function that allows the option to have additional drives seen as one single drive, or have each additional drive operate independently like a normal disk controller. SIDE®-RAID 100™ also offers the SPARE function, which allows copying of up to two additional drives as a backup to your main drive in case it crashes.

Aside from supporting the upgrade to newer ATA 100 drives and a maximum burst transfer rate of 99.9 MB/sec, SIDE®-RAID 100™ is also backward compatible with Ultra ATA66 and ATA33 drives, supporting burst transfer rates of 66.6 MB/sec and 33.3 MB/sec for each respectively. SIDE®-RAID 100™‘s IDE RAID functions offer performance and stability similar to Ultra 2 SCSI RAID, but with an incredible user-friendly installation procedure