SATA II RAID PCI-X Card with 4 eSATA Ports

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 Team Up this RAID Controller with:
5-Bay SATA Port Multiplier Enclosure
4-Bay Hot-Swap SATA RAID Case Kit
eSATA SATA II Drive Enclosure
Hitachi SATA II Hard Drives
Seagate SATA II Hard Drives
Western Digital SATA II Hard Drives

Four RAID-ready external SATA II ports for your high performance SATA II 3Gb/sec hard drives! Provides improved performance over comparable SATA RAID controllers by offering a PCI-X/133 MHz host interface with bandwidth up to 1056 MB/s, which is twice as much as a common 64bit PCI interface.  Plus, its four 3Gb/s external (eSATA) ports can deliver drive throughputs of up to 300 MB/s (3Gb/s) each!

Windows Users: This card supports "direct connect" drive enclosures like the 4-Bay Hot-Swap SATA RAID Case Kit and the Fusion 400 eSATA 4 Bay SATA II Hot Swap Drive Enclosure allowing you to use 4 individual drives or configure as RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 1+S, RAID 5!  Plus, it also compatible with Port Multiplier enclosures like the 5-Bay SATA Port Multiplier Enclosure with LCDs and the Sonnet Fusion 500P, eSATA Port Multiplier Enclosure allowing you to connect up to five drives in one enclosure through a single cable. Using 500GB drives, you can connect an astounding 10 Terabytes (10,000 Gigabytes!) of storage!

Mac Users: Install this card in your PCI or PCI-X equipped Mac running OS 10.3.x or later and use the 5-Bay SATA Port Multiplier Enclosure with LCDs or the Sonnet Fusion 500P, eSATA Port Multiplier Enclosure! Connect up to 5 drives per port with a single cable.  Using 4 enclosures provides up to a huge 10 Terabytes (10,000 Gigabytes!) of storage!
 

• SATA II compliant 
• PCI-X and PCI BUS compatible 
• SATA Port Multiplier compatible
• Up to 3 Gbits/sec (300 Mbytes/sec) per port 
• 4 eSATA (external SATA) ports 
• Backward compatible with Serial ATA 150 (SATA 1.5Gb/s) drives 
• Built in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 1+S, RAID 5 and JBOD support
• 48-bit LBA supports large capacity drives (supports SATA ! and SATA II drive of any capacity) 
• Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• Upgradeable firmware
• Supports SATA II disk hot plug (hot swap drives without system shut down) 

• SATA II RAID PCI-X/PCI card with 4 eSATA connectors
• RAID Management Software CD
• PDF RAID Users Manual

• 4 external SATA (eSATA) ports
• PCI-X /133 MHz (compatible with PCI 32/64 bit)
• One Year Warranty

• Windows PCs:
  • Pentium III 700Mhz or faster desktop computer
  • 128 MB RAM or more
  • Available PCI-X slot or 32/64 bit PCI slot (PCI-X slot required for maximum performance)
  • Operating Systems:
    • Windows 2000
    • Windows XP
    • Windows Server 2003
• Macs:
  • Provides SATA port multiplier compatibility on all four ports with an Apple PowerMac G4 or G5 running Mac OS X 10.3.x or 10.4.x. Not intended for use with individual SATA hard drives in a direct connect configuration.
  • Mac OS X Version 10.3.x or later
  • Mac OS X driver available here
  • Mac installation instructions available here
  • Available PCI-X slot or 32/64 bit PCI slot (PCI-X slot required for maximum performance)
  • Power Mac G4* 
  • Power Mac G5 with PCI-X slots (not compatible with G5 Dual Core or Quad Core, see Tempo E4P PCI Express Card)
  • Card does not support booting with Macs

  * All models except Cube.