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This SATA II host adapter can easily handle
multiple streams of a variety video formats such as 10 bit uncompressed HD, 8
bit uncompressed HD, DVCPro HD, 8 bit SD, 10 bit SD and HDV!
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
Used with high-performance drive enclosures like
this 5-Bay
SATA Port Multiplier Enclosure or the eSATA
Hardware RAID Port Multiplier Enclosure this card can manage the data flow of up to five drives in one enclosure through a single
cable!
*Support for 20 drives requires the use of drive
enclosures employing port multipliers (like the 5-Bay
SATA Port Multiplier Enclosure, eSATA
Hardware RAID Port Multiplier Enclosure or Sonnet's
Fusion 500P ). When using enclosures without a port multiplier, the PCI Express host adapter will support up to 4 drives.
Terrific 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 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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