Based on the Silicon Image SiI-3132 chipset, this SATA II PCI Express card provides advanced SATA functionality normally limited to server-class systems, including 3 Gb/s SATA data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing and support for SiI-3726 and SiI-4726 Port Multipliers!

Use this card to connect up to two external eSATA hard drives to your PCI Express equipped computer or through its support of port multipliers on the eSATA port—the two ports can handle up to ten hard drives*!  Used with high-performance drive enclosures like this 5-Bay SATA Port Multiplier Enclosure, this card can manage the data flow of up to five drives in one enclosure through a single cable. Using high capacity 2TB drives, you can connect an astounding 20 Terabytes (20,000 Gigabytes!) of striped RAID storage!

Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision 1.1 and used with Port Multiplier Enclosure containing multiple SATA hard drives, supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10!

Features:

• PCI Express 1-lane (x1) SATA II adapter works in any available PCI Express slot
• Supports SATA data rates up to 3Gb/sec (300 MB/s)
• Features the latest eSATA (external SATA) connector for connecting external high speed, high capacity hard disk drives
• 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 or use to add up to 2 individual drives or up to 10 individual drives mounted in SiI-3726 or SiI-4726 Port Multiplier enclosures
• Supports SATA hard drives of any capacity
• Supports hard disk hot-plugging
• One Year Manufacturers Warranty

*Support for 10 drives requires the use of drive enclosures employing port multipliers like this 5-Bay SATA Port Multiplier Enclosure.

The SATA II eSATA PCIe Card package contains:

• SATA II eSATA PCI Express card
• CD with drivers and RAID Software
• eSATA cables available here 

Specifications:

• Chipset: Silicon Image SiI-3132 
• Bus type: PCI Express x1 
• Port types: Two external eSATA ports
• Compliant with PCI Express Base Specification Revision 1.0a 
• Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a specification with support for full complement of SATA II optional features 
• Installs in any available PCI Express slot and supports data transfer rates up to 3.0Gbps (300MBps) 
• Supports 48-bit LBA for drives with capacity larger than 137GB 
• Integrated Serial ATA Link and PRY logic 
• Supports two independent Serial ATA channels 
• Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Non-zero offsets NCQ, and Out-of-order data delivery NCQ and Silicon Image SiI-3726 or SiI-4726 Port Multipliers
• Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution 
• Supports hard disk hot-plugging

System Requirements:

• Desktop computer with available PCI Express (PCI-e) slot
• Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista
• Mac Pro, Power Mac G5 Dual-Core with Mac OS X 10.4.9, 10.4.10 or 10.5.1
  Not compatible with G5s having PCI-X slots. If you are not sure what type of slots you have, check your manual.
• Linux

*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)