All stock codes associated to this product
, ADS3GX4R5E, ADS3GX4R5-E
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.
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.
Product Features
- SATAI and 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
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Built-in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID5 and JBOD support
(illustration on the left is the bundled RAID utility for Windows OS)
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- Support large hard drives of 137 GB or greater
- Silicon Image chip set SiI 3124
- Port Multiplier compatible
- Upgradeable firmware
- Fits standard height Desktop case
- Hot swap support - drive can be removed and added without system shut down or restart*
- simple plug and play
- Compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Vista
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)
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*Note: It is common in RAID5 configuration that the WRITE speed performs slower than READ. Depending on system hardware, the WRITE performance can drop to 25% of the READ speed. This performance difference does not affect general database application where majority of the transations are READ commands. For applications that require large files transfer or continuous writing of data on the the hard drive such as video editing, RAID5 configuration may not be desirable.
* Hot swapping hard drive has been tested on Windows OS only. When drives are configured as RAID 0 and certain RAID combination, the removal of the hard drive will result in breaking the RAID set and result in data loss.
Specifications
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
- Temperature: Operating 0 to 70 degree C.
- Storage: -25 to 90 degree C.
- Humidity: Operating 20% to 80%
- Non Operating 15% to 90%
- 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
- Compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Vista
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
System Requirement
- 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: Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista
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
