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SATA II RAID PCI-X Card with 4 eSATA Ports
Take SATA II outside your PC!
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SATA Port Multiplier Compatible
for both Windows PCs and Macs!
Get full external performance
from your SATA 3Gb/s (SATA II) drives!
Supports: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0,
RAID 1+S, RAID 5 and JBOD
System Requirements
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SATA II RAID Controller with 4 eSATA (external SATA) Ports
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Take SATA II 3Gb/s performance outside your computer with this
4 Port eSATA RAID card!
Four RAID-ready external SATA II ports for your high performance
SATA II 3Gb/sec hard drives!
Provides improved performance over comparable SATA RAID controllers by offering a PCI-X/133 MHz host interface with bandwidth up to 1056 MB/s, which is twice as much as a common 64bit PCI interface.
Plus, its four
3Gb/s external (eSATA) ports can deliver drive throughputs of up to 300 MB/s
(3Gb/s) each!
This card supports "direct connect" drive enclosures like the
4-Bay Hot-Swap SATA RAID Case Kit
and the Fusion
400 eSATA
4 Bay SATA II Hot Swap Drive Enclosure allowing you to use 4 individual
drives or configure as RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 1+S, RAID 5!
Plus, it also compatible with Port Multiplier enclosures like the 5-Bay
SATA Port Multiplier Enclosure and the Sonnet Fusion 500P, eSATA Port Multiplier
Enclosure allowing you to connect up to five drives in one enclosure through a single cable. Using
2TB drives, you can connect an astounding 40 Terabytes (40,000 Gigabytes!) of storage!
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Features:
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- SATA II compliant
- PCI-X and PCI BUS compatible
- SATA Port Multiplier compatible
- Up to 3 Gbits/sec (300 Mbytes/sec) per port
- 4 eSATA (external SATA) ports
- Jumper selectable RAID or non-RAID* BIOS
- RAID BIOS supports RAID 5, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 1+S
- non-RAID* BIOS supports JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks - each drive in a Port
Multiplier enclosure can be a separate drive letter for example)
- Backward compatible with Serial ATA 150 (SATA 1.5Gb/s) drives
- 48-bit LBA supports large capacity drives (supports SATA ! and SATA II drive of any
capacity)
- Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Upgradeable firmware
- Supports SATA II disk hot plug (hot swap drives without system shut
down)
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What's In the box:
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- SATA II RAID PCI-X/PCI card with 4 eSATA connectors
- RAID Management Software CD
- PDF RAID Users Manual
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4 Port SATA II RAID Controller Specifications
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- 4 external SATA (eSATA) ports
- PCI-X /133 MHz (compatible with PCI 32/64 bit)
- One Year Warranty
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System Requirements
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- Windows PCs:
- Pentium III 700Mhz or faster desktop computer
- 128 MB RAM or more
- Available PCI-X slot or 32/64 bit PCI slot (PCI-X slot required for maximum performance)
- Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2003
- Macs:
- Mac OS X Version 10.4 or 10.5
- Mac OS X driver available here
- Available PCI-X slot or 32/64 bit PCI slot (PCI-X slot required for maximum performance)
- Power Mac G4**
- Power Mac G5 with PCI-X slots (not compatible with G5 Dual or Quad,
see Tempo E4P PCI Express Card)
- Card does not support booting with Macs
*non-RAID BIOS - also known as JBOD BIOS, Base BIOS or Port Multiplier (each drive shows
to the operating system as a separate volume or drive letter)
** All models except Cube.
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