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Key Features
Hot Plug support; Compatible with NCQ drives
eSATA signal level support (1m and 2m PHY (compliant)
Supports PM aware hosts and non-PM aware
Less than 1% Host CPU loading during rebuild
Fast rebuild of 100GB/hour- Easy configuration using GUI applet
Drive Performance Aggregation (RAID 0)
Hardware RAID 0, 1, 10 with hot spare, Mirrored and spanning with spare, Spanning and JBOD
Introducing our latest Port Multiplier feature SiI-4726 a hardware RAID bridge control up to FIVE SATA drives - RAID_PM.
Flexible, Fast and Intelligent - That is what our SATA II Port Multiplier (SiI4726 base) offering.
To connect multiple SATA drives to a Single SATA port, and creating RAID array without resource to host CPU now is a reality, thank
to the proven SteelVine Storage Processor Architecture from Silicon Image. Our RAID_PM is base on SiI 4726 chip set, which provides
a new level of affordable storage for professional users. The RAID_PM provides 3Gb/s SATA performance over the single host SATA link
as well as the five device SATA links, and can be configured for internal or external use.
Until now, transfer rates of 3Gb/s and hardware RAID features, were only available to enterprise class applications. RAID_PM
allows OEMs and system integrator to offer high-end features for price-sensitive professional market applications. Users of the
RAID_PM can eliminate CPU loading by using the embedded RISC storage processor, which was developed by Silicon Image, and tuned for
the needs of storage applications. This storage processor completely frees up the main CPU and provides the enhanced RAID modes.
RAID_PM allows up to five SATA drives can be configured reliable data mirroring, data performance striping, or just plain capacity
expansion using the friendly GUI provided, RAID_PM RAID modes are:
- Mirroring (RAID 1) — allows SATA Hard drives to automatically copy primary hard drive without any CPU loading (typical 1% CPU resource).
The our RAID_PM provides automatic rebuild on SATA Hard drives replacement and auto-failover, to eliminate any workflow interruptions.
- Stripping (RAID 0) — allows the SATA Hard drives to performance stripe, to provide maximum throughput to the direct attached PC/Server.
- Spanning — allows to make any SATA Hard drives (same or different sizes) appear as one large drive to the host, for extra capacity (also
called concatenation).
- JBOD or Port Multiplier — this allows the SATA Hard drives attached PC/Server to see each drive as just a bunch of drives.
- Striping and Mirroring (RAID 10) — allows the device to improve data availability beyond RAID 5 or RAID 6 with large SATA drives, due to
rebuild vulnerability.
- Spanning and Mirroring — allows for large capacity with protection. The RAID_PM works with any Serial ATA compliant host port, although
such as cascade feature (more than 5 drives) JBOD access require a port multiplier aware host controller such as SiI 3124-2™ or SiI 3132™.
Featuring SteelVine Storage Processor Architecture on our RAID_PM
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Specification:
| Part Number |
RAID_PM Hardware RAID Port Multiplier Bridge up to FIVE SATA Ports - SiI-4726 |
| Output Port |
FIVE SATA L type connector |
| Input port |
eSATA |
| Form Factor |
SCSI cut out mountable |
| Chipset |
Silicon Image SiI-4726 - RAID storage processor SATA Port Multiplier |
| Operating Temperature |
0o C to 50o C |
| Operating Humidity |
5% to 95% non-condensing |
| Dimensions |
3.75in(W)x1.45in(H)x0.8in(D) |
| Connectors |
1x eSATA
5x SATA L type
4-pin power connector x 1
10 pin LED indicators |
| Power Requirement |
5V/DC; 130mA ~ 200mA |
Installation and Use Guide
- Quick Reference
- Guide for Linux
- Linux GUI RAID Manager Utility
- Guide for MAC OS X
- Guide for Windows
- Configuration Manager User's Guide
- GUI RAID Manager Utility Manual
SteelVine GUI Ulitity
- Linux GUI RAID Manager Utility
- MAC GUI RAID Manager Utility
- Windows GUI RAID Manager Utility
Package contents:
• RAID_PM Port Multiplier
• Driver Disc
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Assembly in USA