Aid and Trade

Wholesale Price:     $18.99

This pci host adapter can upgrade your desktop computer to have dual serial ata raid channels. It can support low profile pci and regular size pci both. The board provides a 32bit, 33/66 mhz pci interface on the host side and dual, fully compliant serial ata ports on the device side to access serial ata hard disk drive. Striping (raid 0) and mirroring (raid 1) improve the data performance and provide the data redundancy. Features and specifications: provides 2 brackets to support low profile pci and regular size pci in one card. Breaks capacity-limit to support hdd larger than 137gb. Dual high speed serial ata interface ports, each supporting 1st generation serial ata data rates 1.5Gb/s. Fully compliant with serial ata 1.5G specifications provides. Raid 0 (stripping) to greatly increase the performance of data transfer by simultaneously writing data to 2 drives. Provides raid 1 (mirroring) to protect the data from a disk failure by writing identical data on 2 drives. Supports spread spectrum in receiver. Independent 256-byte fifos (32 bit * 64 deep) per serial ata channel for host reads and writes. Compliant with pci specification, revision 2.2. Integrated pci dma engines. 32 Bit, 33/66mhz fully compliant pci host interface. Complete with drivers for windows 98, windows millennium, windows nt 4.0, Windows 2000 and xp. Acts as non-raid when not bios configured raid. Raid 0 performance: better on read, better on cpu utilization, significantly better on read burst speed. Raid function: supports raid 0 (striped), raid 1 (mirror), supports co-exist raid set and non-raid hdd, allows hdds with different sizes to be configured in a raid set. System requirements: pentium or equivalent pc with one available 32-bit pci slot. Windows 98se / me / nt4.0 / 2000 / xp/nt 4.0, Windows server 2003, linux, novell netware. Package contents: serial ata 2 port raid pci controller card. Low profile pci bracket. Drivers on cd. Quick installation guide.