Addonics Announces SATA II PCI-X Controller With 4 eSATA Ports, RAID 5 and JBOD Support.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Addonics Technologies today announced a 4-port eSATA controller capable of connecting four external hard drives with RAID Level 5 or JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks support through the high-speed 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. bus. The new Addonics eSATA II RAID5/JBOD controller (ADS3GX4R5-E) ensures maximum data throughput of 3 Gbits/sec per port when installed into the PCI-X bus. The controller features the latest eSATA connector to provide EMI protection, improved durability, and a complete cabling solution to ensure 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. signal integrity in external applications up to seven feet. Throughput of up to 200 Mbytes/sec sustained data transfer can be achieved using standard 7,000 RPM SATA hard drives by setting up four drives in a RAID 0 configuration. The controller can also be combined with several optional Addonics Drive Enclosure solutions including the Disk Array 4SA system, Saturn Hard Drive kit or the external SATA drive enclosure. These solutions would allow users to build an external storage system that achieves similar performance of traditional SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. storage, perfect for 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, RAID and non-RAID storage arrays at less than half the cost. With the onboard RAID firmware, the four eSATA ports can be easily configured as four individual ports with RAID 5, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 1+S, or with no RAID as JBOD (a feature, which combines all four drives into one large capacity hard drive). The Addonics controller is compatible with all SATA hard drives. The controller also has hot swap capability to allow drives to be removed or added without a system shut down or restart. The controller supports the fast 133 MHz 64bit PCI-X bus architecture with maximum data throughput of 3 Gbits/sec per port. PCI-X bus is also backward compatible with the standard PCI bus architecture at both the device and driver level. The Addonics eSATA II RAID5/JBOD controller is compatible with DOS, Windows 95, NT, 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP. Linux support includes 64-bit Linux RAID Driver for Redhat Fedora Core2 (rev.10037) for AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. 64 and EMT See Efficient markets theory. 64 platforms-Beta, and 64-bit SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell, targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, but can be installed on Desktop computers for testing as well. New versions are released at an interval of 18-24 months. (SLES) 9.0RAID Driver (rev.10037) for AMD64 and EMT64 platforms-Beta. The controller (Model: ADS3GX4R5-E)) has a MSRP of $129 Addonics products are available through the company online store www.shopaddonics.com, major catalog companies, resellers, VARs and distributors, including StorageUSA.com, Amazon.com, PC Connection, CDW, Buy.com, Provantage.com, Insight, and Ingram Micro. 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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