eSATA_PCIe8 - Key Features

• Four eSATA (External SATA II) ports (3 Gbps)
• 8x lanes electrical PCI Express host connection offering 20Gbps
• Supports Port Multipliers with FIS based switching and SteelVine® Storage Processors
• Support for Software RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 with RAID bios (jump-able)
• Connect to Twenty drives via Port Multiplier SiI-3726

Using up to eight PCI-Express lanes 20Gbps, the eSATA_PCIe8 base on SiI-3124 chip-set provides a data channel that harnesses the total speed of up to 20 hard drives, allowing manufacturers to take full advantage of the speed and plug-and-play convenience of external SATA, Over 800MB/sec transfer have been measure with four eBOX-R5 configure as RAID50
The eSATA ports on the eSATA_PCIe8 base on SiI-3124 chip-set board have a bandwidth of 3 Gbps per port, making them ideal for connecting multidrive storage solutions like those based on the SiI4723 or SiI4726 SteelVine® Storage Processors or storage solutions based on industry standard SATA port multipliers such as the SiI3726.
The eSATA_PCIe8 base on SiI-3124 chip-set is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. Silicon Image provides drivers for RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and non-RAID operation.

Support for FIS Based Port Multipliers
The eSATA_PCIe8 base on SiI-3124 chip-set supports port multipliers using FIS based switching. Traditional SATA controllers only support CMD based switching which can only access a single drive at a time, limiting performance to that of the drive being accessed. The eSATA_PCIe8 base on SiI-3124 chip-set supports FIS based switching which accesses multiple drives simultaneously, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of all the drives, including CD/DVD/BD drives

Our eSATA_PCIe8 base on SiI-3124 from Silicon Image - the leading manufacturer on port multiplier technology - is an indispensable host controller that provides FAST and COST effective