SATA II RAID Controller Card - PCI Express, 2
Port
Based on the Silicon Image SiI 3132
chipset, this SATA II PCI Express controller optimizes the throughput of Hitachi SATA
II hard drives!
This PCI Express card provides two internal Serial ATA II ports for your high performance SATA and SATA II hard drives.
The controller card can be used as a standard controller, with two individual
SATA drives or as a RAID controller (supports both Striping (RAID 0) or Mirroring (RAID 1)
).
The two 3Gb/s SATA II ports can deliver drive throughputs of up to 300 MB/s each!
Fast, easy
way to add two SATA drives or a two drive SATA RAID to your PCI Express (PCIe) equipped desktop computer!
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)
Supports both SATA I and SATA II hard drives of any capacity
Use with two individual SATA drives or use as a two drive SATA RAID
controller
The PCI Express SATA II PCIe package contains:
PCI Express (PCIe) SATA II RAID controller card
Software Driver and Utility Disc
User's manual
Specifications:
Chipset: Silicon Image 3132
Bus type: PCI Express x1
Port type: Two internal SATA II ports (compatible with SATA I and SATA
II drives)
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 PHY logic
Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ), Non-zero offsets NCQ, and Out-of-order data delivery NCQ
Independent command fetch, scatter/gather, and command execution
Supports Serial ATA hard drive hot-plugging
Supports RAID 0 (striping) and 1 (mirroring) for speed and data protection
Friendly SATARaid RAID management software utility is provided to make configuring RAID easy