Designed to the latest 3Gbits/sec ASIC from Silicon Image and eSATA connector, this 4-port controller incorporates many advanced features that are only found in some expensive RAID controllers. With the onboard RAID firmware, the 4 eSATA ports can be easily configured as 4 individual ports with no RAID or with RAID 5, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 1+S, or JBOD (a feature of combining all 4 drives into one large capacity hard drive)

When installed into the fast PCI-X BUS, this controller ensures maximum data throughput of 3 Gbits/sec per port. In addition, the latest External SATA (eSATA) connector also provides more secured cable connection, improved durability, increased EMI protection and up to 2 meters cable length. (For more detail on this new SATA external connector, please review the following white paper posted on SATA-IO.org)

Throughput up to 200 Mbytes/sec sustained data transfer can be achieved using standard 7,000 RPM SATA hard drive by setting up 4 drives in a RAID 0 configuration (see benchmark test result below). Together with the Addonics optional Disk Array 4SA system, Saturn Hard Drive kit or the external SATA drive enclosure, you can add external high performance storage system that rivals the traditional SCSI storage at less than half of the cost.

• SATA II compliant
• PCI-X and PCI BUS compatible
• Up to 300 Mbytes/sec (3 Gbits/sec) per port
• 4 External SATA (eSATA) ports with the new SATA External connector
• Work with any Serial ATA drive Use as a non-RAID or RAID controller
  
• Built-in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID5 and JBOD support
• Support large hard drives of 137 GB or greater
• Up gradeable firmware
• Fits standard height Desktop case
• Hot swap - device can be removed and added without system shut down or restart
• simple plug and play
• compatible with DOS, Windows 95, NT, 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP
  64-bit Linux RAID Driver for Redhat Fedora Core2 (rev.10037) for AMD64 and EMT64 platforms-Beta,
  64-bit SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0RAID Driver (rev.10037) for AMD64 and EMT64 platforms-Beta
  (All RAID functions under LInux are software RAID from the Linux OS. There is no RAID5 or JBOD under Linux)

• 4-port eSATA II RAID5/JBOD PCI-X controller
• user guide.

PCI-X

• Compliant with PCI-X Specification, revision 1.0a
• Supports 133 MHz PCI-X with 64-bit data
• Internal application interface multiplexed to 4 ports
• All registers appear in unified memory space
• Full-chip command completion status accessible with single PCI-X burst access
• I/O port access to register space

High Speed SATA II

• Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a Specifications revision 1.1
• Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision 1.1
• Up gradeable firmware
• Supports Spread Spectrum in receiver
• Output Swing Control
• Supports four independent Serial ATA 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 LED connection
• Shielded SATA Connectors
• Protocol Override per Command
• Staggered Spin-up Control
• Plesiochronous, Single PLL architecture, 1 PLL for 4 ports
• Supports First-party DMA commands for Native Command Queuing
• 4 ports can be configured as RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5, JBOD or as 4 independent ports
• RAID 10 (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
• RAID 1+S (Mirrored-sparing) can automatically replace the failed drive and rebuild the system when booting HDD is failed
• Work under DOS, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP and 2003
  64-bit Linux RAID Driver for Redhat Fedora Core2 (rev.10037) for AMD64 and EMT64 platforms-Beta,
  64-bit SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0RAID Driver (rev.10037) for AMD64 and EMT64 platforms-Beta
  (All RAID functions under LInux are software RAID from the Linux OS. There is no RAID5 or JBOD under Linux)
• Dimension (W x D x H) - 165 mm x 19 mm x 64 mm.
• 1 year warranty

• PC/AT or Compatible System
• One free PCI slot
• Pentium or greater
• Minimum 32 MB RAM
• 10 MB minimum free hard disk space
• One of the following operating systems: DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, NT 4.0, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP
  64-bit Linux RAID Driver for Redhat Fedora Core2 (rev.10037) for AMD64 and EMT64 platforms-Beta,
  64-bit SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9.0RAID Driver (rev.10037) for AMD64 and EMT64 platforms-Beta