ACARD Technology Corp., a global leading provider of storage solutions, was founded on September 19, 1996. Since establishment, ACARD has been engaging in IC design and Storage solutions. In the fields of IDE and SCSI, ACARD has its core technologies, and enjoys a high reputation.

ACARD devotes its energies to the development of leading edge technology.ACARD's R&D capabilities include IC Design (Analog, Digital and Mix Mode design), BIOS/Driver/AP design, and system integration. Since 1999 it has been developing critical technologies.
Based on the IC development, ACARD has owned key technologies and know-how of IC design, software, hardware application and integration. SCSIDE technology (SCSI-to-IDE Bridge) is the best proof of ACARD's innovation. The core chip, SCSIDE engine, is created with an advanced technology, which integrates a SCSI core, an IDE core and a CPU core on one chip. Through this innovation, a user can convert a low-cost device of IDE interface to that of high-performance SCSI interface；therefore, the system operation will be enhanced.

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Specifications of the Acard ANS-9010 DDR2 Ram disk.



Not that much is included in the package, however everything you need to get started is included, except for the DDR2 memory, of course.



Top of the ANS-9010. To open the box, you need to remove the screws in the four corners.



The front of the ram disk offers users to see what memory banks are available (P0 and P1), the capacity of the battery (important if you turn of your system) and the possibility to backup the drive to a CF-card. Obviously, the CF card has to be equal to or bigger than the total amount of memory.



On the back, we find the SATA power connector, two SATA connections and a set of jumpers. If you connect one SATA cable, the ANS-9010 will run in single disk mode, which means that you won't be able to benefit from any raid performance boosts. In dual mode (add a second SATA cable and a jumper), the drive will be split up in two separate hard disk drives, thus making it possible to be configured in an Raid configuration.



Inside of the box. As you can see, there are 8 memory banks to be filled.



The specifications of the battery, which allows storage to be refreshed even if the system is shut down.



This reset button is to be pressed in when anything changes in the memory size configuration. Notice that you will lose all data stored on the disk drive.

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