Sans Digital HA-SAN-2ESPCIE2 eSTATA PCI-Express Host Adapter

Sans Digital Updated: 2009-01-06 RSS
Sans Digital HA-SAN-2ESPCIE2 eSTATA PCI-Express Host Adapter

Add two eSATA ports to the existing PCI-E equipped Mac™/PC computer in order to easily connect to our eSATA products including: MS1UT, MS2UT+, MS2T+, MS4T, MR5CT1, TR4M, TR5M1, TR8M. This revolutionary design uses the latest Silicon Image 3132 chipset to provide PCI 1x interface to two eSATA connections. Unlike the preious generation of adapters, the new design includes two firmwares: RAID or BASE. With the jumper selection, the user could instantly select the proper RAID mode. With Port Multiplier support, a single eSATA cable could connect up to five hard drives use a Port Multiplier aware unit, such as TR4M, TR5M and MS4UM. Compatible with the PCI-E equipped Mac™ G5 and Mac Pro, Windows XP, 2000, 2003 and Vista.

Features

* Selectable RAID and BASE BIOS Jumper
* RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 support using Silicon Image SATARAID utilities, PC and MAC supported
* PCIe 1x connections.
* Fully compliant with SATA I and SATA II.
* Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gbps.
* Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier, up to 10 hard drive supported
* Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 for Windows.
* Supports Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 Server, MAC OS 10.4.x or later, and Linux. (Please note that the host adapter card is based on Silicon Image chipset, which currently only support up to MAC OS 10.5.1 by Silicon Image.)

Specifications

Host Interface: PCI Express 1x
Controller Interface: SATA II - transfer rate 3Gbps
Connectors: 2 eSATA connectors
Power Requirement: Operational Voltage: 3.3V/DC
Operationall Current: 155mA ~ 400mA
RAID Level: RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5
OS Supports: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 Server, MAC OS 10.4.x or later, and Linux