MRI-eSATA-II-2CR

PCI 2.2 2 external port eSATA II RAID 0, 1, controller

This eSATA host adapter allows you to connect up to two eSATA II devices in RAID 0 and 1 configurations for your desktop PC.

The MRI-eSATA-II-2CR is based on Initio chipset and supports SATA II transfer rate (between controller and drive) of 3.0Gbps (300 MB/s). It has its own onboard chip to supply full Hardware based RAID 0+1 configurations. It can host external devices due to its Native Command Queuing, enclosure management device support, and selectable output strengths for backplanes with hot-plug support up to 10 drives.

Features

• Supports JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) for expanded customisability!
• Hot-plug capability
• Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• 48 bits LBA can Break Capacity-Limit to Support HDD larger than 137GB
• Provides RAID 1 (Mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives
• Provides RAID 0 (Stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to multiple drives
• RAID 0+1 (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
• Supports bootable drive
• Acts as NON-RAID when BIOS not configured RAID
• Supports High Speed Transfer of SATA and SATA II
• Supports two independent Serial ATA channels
• Supports High Speed Transfer Rate 1.5Gbps, Compared with 480Mbps of USB2.0 & 800Mbps of 1394b
• 2x Shielded & Durable eSATA connectors

Specifications

• FCC Class B (DoC) Regulatory approval
• Supports specific BIOS and driver for RAID level 0 (Striping), RAID level 1 (Mirroring), RAID level 10 (Striping and Mirroring) functions and Just a Bunch Of Disks
• Supports various makes of large capacity Serial ATA (II) hard disks and backward compatible
• Windows 98SE or later Support
• Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.3
• Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a Specifications revision 1.1
• RoHS Compliant
• 2 x RS232 DB9 serial ports