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The Quad CF PCI adapter is Addonics newest solution for creating a low cost large capacity SSD (solid state drive). Designed to fit into any PCI slot, either standard height or low profile, this adapter allows as many as 4 CF (Compact Flash) media of any capacity to be used like ordinary hard drives in any system. Using the built-in firmware utility, the 4 CF cards can be combined to become one large volume by configuring them as RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 10 for redundancy or as 4 separate drives.

Front view with 4 CF cards being inserted (CF cards are shown for illustration purposes only and are not included with the Quad CF Adapter)

Back view with CF cards already inserted (CF cards are shown for illustration purposes only and are not included with the Quad CF Adapter)

Angled view of Quad-CF PCI Controller fully populated with various CF cards (CF cards are shown for illustration purposes only and are not included with the Quad CF Adapter)

Product Features

• Enable CF to be used like Solid State Drive (SSD)
• Connects up to 4 CF's - type I/II cards in slot 1 and slot 2, type I in slot 3 and slot 4
• CF can be configured as 4 individual drives or in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10*
• CF card can be used as boot device or for extra storage
• Fits standard height or low profile system
• LED connector for Power and Drive Activity
• Install into any PCI slot
• Supports UDMA, DMA, and PIO modes
• Supports DOS, Windows 98/ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, Linux kernel 2.4+

*note: Only fixed disk Compact Flash can be used to create RAID sets. Removable type CF can only be used as individual drives. Use the SilCfg Management utility to see whether the CF card is fixed disk or removable type CF. Otherwise, use Diskpart which is included with Windows XP.

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Specifications

• Connect up to 4 Compact Flash Type I cards
• CF slot 1 and 2 support Type II and MicroDrive
• 4 CF's can be set as individual drive or as RAID 0 (Striped), RAID 1 (Mirrored), and RAID 10 (Mirrored Striped)*
• CF card can be bootable device containing OS and application
• Includes standard height and low profile bracket
• SiICfg Management Utility under Windows for RAID and device status / report
• LED connector for Power and Drive Activity
• PCI BUS slot compatible
• Supports UDMA, DMA, and PIO modes
• Features one 256-byte FIFO (32-bit x 64 deep) for host reads and writes
• Features command buffering from the PCI to CF
• Features Virtual DMA: Bus master transfer on the PCI bus and PIO transfer on the ATA bus
• Compliant with PCI Specification, revision 2.2
• Integrated PCI DMA engines
• 32-bit, 33MHz fully compliant PCI host interface
• Fully RoHS compliant
• Supports DOS, Windows 98/ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, Linux kernel 2.4+
• Dimensions: 16.7mm(W) x 1mm(D) x 6.5mm(H)
  
• 1 year warranty

* 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

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: DOS, Windows 98/ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, Linux kernel 2.4+