PE-124MR5

RAID5 eSATA II -3Gbps External 4x Multilane PCIe 8 lane Low Profile Host

Low Profile eSATA II-3Gbps PCIe x8 adapter with Multilane 4x External connector to support NCQ, Port Multiplier, Raid5, Raid10, Raid0, Raid1 and JBOD!

FEATURES

• Type 4x Multilane SATA connector with thumbscrews

• Cross-Over Pin out

• 48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB
• Efficiently cooling by Active Heat Sink with Blast Fan
• Eight Layers PCB

• Fully RoHS compliant

1.PCIe  

• x8 PCI-Express Bus

• PCI Express Specification, Revision 1.0a   

• Maximum realized bandwidth on PCI Express interface is 2 GB/s in each direction simultaneously, for an aggregate of 4 GB/s

• Low Profile PCI Form Factor

2.High Speed SATA  

• Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a Specifications revision 1.1  

• Hot-plug capability

• Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gbps

• Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision 1.1

• Supports First-party DMA commands for Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

• Plesiochronous, Single PLL architecture, 1 PLL for 4 ports

• Output Swing Control

• Supports four independent SATA channels

• Independent Link, Transport, data FIFO, command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution  

• 31 Commands and Scatter/Gather Tables per Port

• Four Pin header on board for Device LED connection

• Jumper to enable / disable on board SATA BIOS

• Protocol Override per Command 

• Staggered Spin-up Control  

• RAID 5 (Distributed Parity RAID) has Highest Read data transaction rate and Good aggregate transfer rate

• JBOD is a virtual disk that combines all disk drives as one entire disk drive.

• Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously reading data from multiple drives

• Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from the disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives

• RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Stripping) combine both Striping and Mirroring technologies to provide both the performance   enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability and integrity that comes from Mirroring

• Completely with drivers for Windows 2000 ,XP and 2003 Server

• Supports 64bit / 32bit Windows Vista

• Mac OS X v10.3.9, v10.4.9, v10.4.10, v10.5.1 Non-booting driver supported by SiliconImage  SiI3124.

• Linux 32bit / 64bit drivers supported for RHEL 4.0 Up2, RHEL 4.0 Up3, SuSE9.0 SP2, SuSE9.0 SP3 by SiliconImage SiI3124.

•  Chipset: Intel and SiliconImage