The RocketRAID 100 is a dual channel IDE RAID host adapter designed for use with ATA100 hard disk drives. RocketRAID 100 supports several RAID levels including RAID 0, 1, 01 and JBOD. The RocketRAID 100 supports high speed transfer rates up to 100MB/s, as well as providing parallel access to its two, independent, ATA channels. Due to the RocketRAID 100s RAID 0 capability, data storage and retrieval is dramatically faster than single drive systems.In addition to the BIOS configuration utility, the RocketRAID 100 includes Windows-based RAID configuration software. The software provides and intuitive interface, which is designed to make RAID management easy, even for the inexperienced user.For RAID 1 and 01, the RocketRAID 100 provides disk mirroring, hot-spare options for automatic array-rebuilds, hot-swap support for swapping failed disks on the fly (works with Hot-Swap capable mobile racks such as Rocket Mate), and disk failure notification (audible alarms, visual warning messages). These features provide a high level of security and data protection against hard disk failure.