INTRODUCTION

The SS-CGS4E is the most powerful Serial ATA RAID PCI Express Card to accommodate Serial ATA hard drives with the new technology of RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 0+1 (Striping and Mirroring) features. Any system with a PCI Express bus interface can simply add the Serial ATA devices by simply adding the SS-CGS4E RAID controller and loading the drivers and utility into the system. Serial ATA is a high-speed serial link replacement for the parallel ATA attachment of mass storage devices. The serial link employed is a high-speed differential layer that utilizes Gigabit technology and 8b/10b encoding. The current data rate is 1.5Gb/s (=150MB/s), it also provides a clear roadmap for 3 and 6Gb/s. The SS-CGS4E supports 4 serial ATA ports, it supports 4 serial ATA devices (one for each). The built-in Silicon Image chip provides 256-byte FIFOs, watch dog features and complete software driver and RAID KIT. It is the right choice for a PCI to Serial ATA versatile devices.

4+2 Channel eSATA RAID PCIe Card

• Full x1 PCI Express Throughput, 250Mbytes/sec
• Fully Compliant with PCI Express Base Specifications, Revision 1.0a
• 4 eSATA External and 2 SATA Internal Channels
• Supports RAID 0 (striping) 1 (mirroring) and 0+1
• Supports Serial ATA Rate up to 1.5Gb/s
• Compliant with Serial ATA 2.0 phase 1
• Co-resides with Motherboard IDE devices
• ROM BIOS supports RAID setup and Boot Features
• Supports up to Hard Drives over 137GB
• Bundle Windows based RAID utilities for rebuilding array

SPECIFICATIONS

System Fully Compliant with x1 PCI Express Base Specifications 1.0a Serial ATA Ports 4 serial ATA ports which fully support devices up to 1.5Gb/s transfer rate:
• Supports RAID 0 (performance) and RAID 1 (data security) and RAID 0+1 features.
• Supports 4 external eSATA connectors and 2 internal SATA connectors
• Supports hard drives greater than 137GB
• Supports 4 SATA devices with 1.5Gb/s rate (serial ATA Generation 2 phase 1) Serial ATA Devices Supports 4 Serial ATA devices: Hard drives, Removable HDD, and more coming devices such as CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Tape, IOMEGA, LS-120, DVD-ROM, PD, ¡K I/O Hardware Provides 4 external eSATA and 2 internal SATA connectors.
• Software Bundled Powerful Software Driver and RAID KIT for major Operating Systems OS Support Windows 2000, XP Form Factor 3.58" x 4.13" (9.10cm x 10.50cm)