eSATA_PCIe8 - Key Features
  • Four eSATA (External SATA II) ports (3 Gbps)
  • Support MAC 10.4.x to 10.8.x, WindowXP to Windows 2012, Linux Kernel 2.6.x
  • 8x lanes electrical PCI Express host connection offering 20Gbps
  • Supports Port Multipliers with FIS based switching and SteelVine® Storage Processors
  • Support for Software RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 with RAID bios (jump-able)
  • Connect to Twenty drives via Port Multiplier SiI-3726
  • It works only an Intel platforms. If you are running AMD chips, please do not purchase this card as it has been deemed incompatible.

Using up to eight PCI-Express lanes 20Gbps, the eSATA-PCIe8, based on SiI-3124 chip-set, provides a data channel that harnesses the total speed of up to 20 hard drives, allowing manufacturers to take full advantage of the speed and plug-and-play convenience of external SATA.

Over 800MB/sec transfers have been measured with four eBOX-R5 configured as RAID 5. 
The eSATA ports on the eSATA-PCIe8, based on SiI-3124 chip-set, board have a bandwidth of 3 Gbps per port, making them ideal for connecting multidrive storage solutions like those based on the SiI4723 or SiI4726 SteelVine® Storage Processors or storage solutions based on industry standard SATA port multipliers such as the SiI3726. 

The eSATA-PCIe8, based on SiI-3124 chip-set, is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. Silicon Image provides drivers for RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and non-RAID operations.

Support for FIS Based Port Multipliers 
The eSATA-PCIe8, based on SiI-3124 chip-set supports port multipliers using FIS based switching. Traditional SATA controllers only support CMD based switching which can only access a single drive at a time, limiting performance to that of the drive being accessed. The eSATA-PCIe8, based on SiI-3124 chip-set, supports FIS based switching which accesses multiple drives simultaneously, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of all the drives, including CD/DVD/BD drives.

Our eSATA-PCIe8, based on SiI-3124 from Silicon Image - the leading manufacturer on port multiplier technology - is an indispensable host controller that provides FAST and COST effective solutions.



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