Addonics Announces 4-Port External SATA II PCI-X Controller; Three Gbits/Sec Throughput for High-Performance Storage Arrays With RAID or Non-RAID Configuration.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Addonics Technologies today announced a 4-port external SATA See Serial ATA. II compliant controller, which supports both PCI-X and PCI Bus systems to deliver high performance RAID or non-RAID external disk arrays storage applications at a lower cost than SCSI-based systems. The new Addonics 4-Port External SATA II See Serial ATA. PCI-X Controller (ADSA3GX4R-E) incorporates the latest eSATA ESATA - Enterprise Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Western Digital hard disk interface) eSATA - External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (hard disk interface) connector defined by the SATA-IO organization. It is one of the fastest SATA controllers on the market and provides the added advantage of four external ports for easily connecting four external SATA hard drives. The controller also has hot swap capability -- drives can be removed and added without a system shut down or restart. The controller supports the fast 133 MHz 64bit PCI-X bus architecture to deliver maximum data throughput of 3 Gbits/sec See GB/sec. per port. PCI-X technology is also backward compatible with the standard PCI bus architecture at both the device and driver level. The new Addonics controller is powered by Silicon Image's SATA II ASIC, which provides embedded support for first-party DMA commands for Native Command Queuing The ability to store multiple commands and execute them one at a time., and on-chip hardware RAID. DMA support allows more commands to be processed and frees the CPU for other operations. Together, these features enable the Addonics SATA II PCI-X RAID controller Four Port RAID Conroller This S150 SX4 RAID controller from Promise supports four Serial ATA drives in a RAID 0, 1, 5 or 10 configuration. If one drive is set up as a hot spare, the S150 uses the on-board memory to automatically rebuild the data on it if one of the other drives fails. (Image courtesy of Promise Technology, Inc., www.promise.com) to meet the demands of a broad range of high-performance external storage Storage outside of the CPU, such as disk and tape. applications, which include NAS, SAN, and RAID Storage Arrays. When combined with the Addonics optional Disk Array 4SA, users can build an external storage system that rivals the performance of traditional SCSI storage at less than half the cost. The Addonics SATA II PCI-X RAID controller is compatible with DOS, Windows 95, NT, 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP. It also supports RedHat, SuSE and Mandrake mandrake, plant of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family), the source of a narcotic much used during the Middle Ages as a pain-killer and perhaps the subject of more superstition than any other plant. The true mandrakes are of the genus Mandragora (especially M. officinalis), herbaceous perennials native to the Mediterranean and to Himalayan areas. versions of Linux with drivers that can be downloaded from Silicon Image. The controller requires one free PCI slot (hardware) PCI slot - A connector on Peripheral Component Interconnect and the associated physical space occupied by the installed PCI card. and fits inside a standard desktop PC case. The four drives attached to the controller can be configured as RAID 1, RAID 0, RAID 1+0, RAID 1+S or as four individual drives. The controller (Model: ADSA3GX4R-E) has a MSRP of $105. Addonics products are available through the company online store www.shopaddonics.com, major catalog companies, resellers, VARs and distributors, including StorageUSA.com, Newegg.com, Amazon.com, PC Connection, CDW, Buy.com, Provantage.com, Insight, Ingram Micro, and Ma Labs. Addonics Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a broad line of external and mobile storage products. Addonics is headquartered at 2466 Kruse Drive, San Jose, CA 95131. Phone: 408-433-3899. Visit Addonics at www.addonics.com. All products/company names are either trademarks or trade names of their respective holders. |
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