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Based on dual chip architecture from Silicon Image and Intel, this x8 PCI Express
card is an extremely fast SATA host adapter with four eSATA II 3Gb/s ports.
Compatible with Apple Mac
Pro, Power Mac
G5 Dual-core (Late 2005) or any Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista PC equipped with an x8 PCI-e slot! Supports SATA direct connect of up to 4 external SATA
drives or use with SATA Port Multiplier enclosures and connect up to 20 hard drives!
- 4 External eSATA SATA II 3Gb/s Ports
- Port Multiplier compatible - supports up to 20 disk drives*
- PCI Express (PCIe) x8 8-lane host bus interface provides extremely fast throughput
- Supports Mac OS X and Windows XP RAID
- 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)
- Plugs and Plays
- Backward compatible with SATA I drives
- Compatible with AJA, BMD and Matrox video capture cards
Support for 20 drives requires the use of drive
enclosures employing port multipliers like this SATA Port Multiplier
Enclosure, 5-Bay with LCDs,
SATA
Hardware RAID Enclosure or Sonnet's
Fusion 500P. When using enclosures without a port multiplier, the card will support up to 4 drives.
Super Performance!
- 4 Drives in RAID 0
- In tests using 4 SATA II drives in a RAID 0 direct connect configuration (each drive on a separate port), the
card produced sustained reads of 275MB/s with writes of 273MB/s!
- SATA Port Multiplier Enclosures
- In tests using 5 SATA II hard drives striped (RAID 0) in a port
multiplier enclosure, the card produced sustained reads of 234MB/s with writes of
212MB/s!
Supporting huge storage capacity and high sustained data throughput, this x8
PCIe (PCI Express) card
is ideal for setting up video and photo editing "scratch disks", huge photo/MP3/movie libraries and small to medium business file servers.
Includes:
- 4 Port x8 PCI-e (PCI Express) Host Adapter
- Driver CD
- Quick Installation Guide
System Requirements:
- Desktop computer with available x8 PCI Express (PCI-e) slot
- Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista
- Mac Pro, Power Mac G5 Dual-Core with Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
Not compatible with G5s having PCI-X slots. If you are not sure what type of slots you have, check your manual.
*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)
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