SATA II RAID PCI-X Card with 4 eSATA Ports
SATA Port Multiplier Compatible
for both Windows PCs and Macs!
Now supports Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard (32-bit & 64-bit) in JBOD mode with port multipliers !
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
SATA II RAID Controller with 4 eSATA (external SATA) Ports
Take SATA II 3Gb/s performance outside your computer with this
4 Port eSATA RAID card!
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, Trayless 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!
Features:
SATA II compliant
PCI-X and PCI BUS 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 drive of any
capacity)
Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Upgradeable firmware
Supports SATA II disk hot plug (hot swap drives without system shut
down)
What's In the box:
SATA II RAID PCI-X/PCI card with 4 eSATA connectors
RAID Management Software CD
PDF RAID Users Manual
4 Port SATA II RAID Controller Specifications
4 external SATA (eSATA) ports
PCI-X /133 MHz (compatible with PCI 32/64 bit slots)
One Year Warranty
System Requirements
Windows PCs:
Pentium III 700Mhz or faster desktop computer
128 MB RAM or more
Available PCI-X slot or PCI slot (PCI-X slot required for maximum performance)
Operating Systems:
Windows XP -32-bit & 64-bit
Windows Vista -32-bit & 64-bit
Windows 2003 Server -32-bit & 64-bit
Windows 2008 Server -32-bit & 64-bit
Windows 7** -32-bit only
Macs:
Mac OS X Version 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6**
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)
**non-RAID/JBOD only
*** All models except Cube.