Addonics Product: 4 Port eSATA II PCI-E 8x Controller for Mac

4 Port eSATA II PCI-E 8x Controller for Mac

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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 BASE firmware, any drives connected will be detected by the system as individual pass-through drives.

When installed into the fast PCI-Express 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. (For more detail on this new SATA external connector, please review the following white paper posted on SATA-IO.org)

For more information on Serial ATA, please visit our tutorial page.

SATAI and SATA II compliant
PCI-Express 8 lane compatible (also fits into PCI-Express 16 Lane or the graphic card slot)
Up to 300 Mbytes/sec (3 Gbits/sec) per port
4 External SATA (eSATA) ports
BASE BIOS firmware - drives are automatically detected as pass-through devices by the system
Software RAID using Windows Disk Management or MAC OS X Disk Utility
Support large hard drives of 137 GB or greater
Silicon Image chip set SiI 3124
Port Multiplier compatible
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, Mac OS X 10.4.8+ **

*Note: It is common in RAID5 configuration that the WRITE speed performs slower than READ. Depending on system hardware, the WRITE performance can 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.

**Note: There are currently reports of incompatibility with this controller under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Please check back for updates on this incompatibility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258

48 bits LBA, support HDD partition larger than 137GB
Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a Specifications revision 1.1
Hot-plug capability
Supports Serial ATA Generation 2 transfer rate of 3.0 Gbps
Supports Serial ATA II Port Multiplier 1.0 Specifications revision 1.1
Supports First-party DMA commands for Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Plesiochronous, Single PLL architecture, 1 PLL for 4 ports
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 Device LED connection
Protocol Override per Command
Staggered Spin-up Control
Temperature: Operating 0 to 70 degree C.
Storage: -25 to 90 degree C.
Humidity: Operating 20% to 80%
Non Operating 15% to 90%
BASE BIOS firmware - drives are automatically detected as pass-through devices by the system
Completely with drivers for Windows 2000 , XP, and 2003 Server, Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.8+
RoHS compliant
PCI-Express 8 lane:
- x8 PCI Express Bus
- PCI Express Specification, Revision 1.0a
- Maximum realized bandwidth on PCI Express 8x interface is 2 GB/s in each direction simultaneously, for an aggregate of 4 GB/s
- Fan info:
  Maximum air flow: 4.53 CFM
  Sound level: 19.7 dBA (Max: 22.2dBA)

SATA data transfer rate is calculated at 10 bits=1 byte

System Requirement

PC/AT or Compatible System
One free PCI-Express 8 lanes slot or 16 lanes slot (same as the PCI-Express graphic card slot)
Pentium or greater
Minimum 32 MB RAM
10 MB minimum free hard disk space
One of the following operating systems: Windows 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.8+

PRODUCTS

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4 Port eSATA PCI-E 8x Controller for Mac Pro, Driver CD, User Guide.,

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AASA2SAP15C Converter cable for adapting external standard SATA cable to the new External SATA (eSATA) connector. Require additional SATA cable to connect to standard SATA devices. This adapter cable is ideal for connecting SATA storage devices to controllers with eSATA ports such as the Addonics 4-port External SATA II PCI-X controller ADS3GX4R5-E.

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AASAEDC3F 100 cm. external Serial ATA cable with standard SATA conncectors on both ends of the cable. Constructed with heavy duty shielding and connector to ensure reliable connection to external data storage devices.

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AASA2SA100C (External eSATA - SATA cable, 100 cm)

AASA2SA100C eSATA to SATA connecting cable, 100 cm. eSATA connector on one end and heavy duty SATA1 (regular SATA connector) on another end. Great for connecting external SATA storage device to eSATA port.

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AAESATA100C (eSATA - eSATA cable, 100 cm.)

AAESATA100C 100 cm. eSATA connecting cable with eSATA connectors on both ends. Full compliance with eSATA specification. Great for connecting external storage device with eSATA connectors to eSATA host controller.

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AAESATA200C (eSATA cable, 200 cm (6 ft.))

AAESATA200C 200 cm. eSATA connecting cable with eSATA connector on both ends. Full compliance with eSATA specification. Great for connecting external storage device with eSATA connectors to eSATA host controller.

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Datasheets

ADSA3GPX8-4EM
Applies to:

Userguides

ADSA3GPX8-4E_user_guide.pdf

Drivers

SiI3124 32-bit universal Mac OS X 10.4.9, 10.4.10, & 10.5.1 BASE Driver
Applies to: ADS3GX4R5-EM, ADS3GX4R5-MLM, ADSA3GPX8-4EM, ADSA3GPX8-4E, ADSA3GPX8-ML

SiI3124 32-bit universal Mac OS X 10.4.9, 10.4.10, & 10.5.1 BASE Driver. To use this driver on the ADSA3GPX8-ML and ADSA3GPX8-4E, set jumper on controller to "Disable BIOS".

SiIicon Image 3124 BASE Driver for Mac OS 10.6.X
Applies to: ADS3GX4R5-EM, ADS3GX4R5-MLM, ADSA3GPX8-4EM, ADSA3GPX8-4E, ADSA3GPX8-ML

SiI3124b non-RAID driver for all Mac OS 10.6.X operating systems. To use this driver on the ADSA3GPX8-ML and ADSA3GPX8-4E, set jumper on controller to "Disable BIOS".