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 II compliant controller, which supports both PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. 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 PCI-X Controller (ADSA ADSA Aging and Disability Services Administration ADSA American Dairy Science Association ADSA American Dental Society of Anesthesiology ADSA Axisymmetric Drop-Shape Analysis ADSA Association for Dietetics in South Africa 3GX4R-E) incorporates the latest eSATA connector defined by the SATA-IO SATA-IO Serial ATA International Organization organization. It is one of the fastest SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. 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 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 (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. , which provides embedded support for first-party DMA commands for Native Command Queuing, and on-chip hardware RAID. DMA support allows more commands to be processed and frees the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. for other operations. Together, these features enable the Addonics SATA II PCI-X RAID controller to meet the demands of a broad range of high-performance external storage applications, which include NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular , 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. versions of Linux with drivers that can be downloaded from Silicon Image. The controller requires one free PCI slot 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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