Coolgear SATA 2 PCI Express RAID Controller RAID 0/1/5

SATA PCI-Express 2 Channel SATA II Host Adapter

RAID BIOS selectable via Dip Switch (RAID/NO-RAID) NCQ and Port Multiplier

The SS-SA2R is the most powerful Serial ATA II RAID controller to accommodate Serial ATA II hard drives with the new technology of RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 0+1, RAID 5 over Port Multipliers. Any system with a PCI Express interface can simply add the Serial ATA devices by simply adding the SS-SA2R RAID controller card 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) and 3.0Gb/s. It will supports 6Gb/s in the future.

Features:

• Supports 1-lane 2.5Gb/s PCI Express.
• Onboard SiI3132 SATA2 Controller Chip.
• Provides dual Serial ATA II Channels.
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and RAID 5 (over Port Multipliers).
• Supports SATA2 transfer rate of 3.0Gb/s.
• Supports Legacy Command Queuing (LCQ).
• Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ).
• Supports FIS-based switching with Port Multipliers.
• Co-resides with Motherboard IDE and SATA devices.
• ROM BIOS supports RAID setup and Boot Features.
• Supports up to Hard Drives over 137GB.
• Bundle Windows based RAID utilities for rebuilding array.