Dat Optic mSATA_PCIe8
12Gb/s 4x Channel Infiniband Host Adapter
RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, & JBOD | Up to 20 SATA devices | Port Multiplier

Using PCIX at 133MHz, the mSATA_PCIX base on SiI-3124 chip-set provides a single cable connection that harnesses the total speed of up to 20 hard drives, allowing manufacturers to take full advantage of the speed and plug-and-play convenience of external SATA..

Highlights

• Multilane (4x lanes) - high performance, high reliable interconnection (12 Gbps)
  
• Supports PCI Express eight lanes or more , bandwidth (8x - 20Gb/sec transfer rate)
  
• Supports Port Multipliers with FIS based switching and SteelVine®
• Storage Processors
  
• Support for Software RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 with RAID bios (jump-able)
  
• Connect to Twenty drives via Port Multiplier SiI-3726

The Multilane on the mSATA_PCIX base on SiI-3124 chip-set board have a bandwidth of 3 Gbps per port, making them ideal for connecting multidrive storage solutions like those based on the SPM394 hardware raid5 or SiI4723 or SiI4726 SteelVine® Storage Processors or storage solutions based on industry standard SATA port multipliers such as the SiI3726.

The mSATA_PCIX base on SiI-3124 chip-set is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. Silicon Image provides drivers for RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and non-RAID operation.

Support for FIS Based Port Multipliers

The mSATA_PCIX base on SiI-3124 chip-set supports port multipliers using FIS based switching. Traditional SATA controllers only support CMD based switching which can only access a single drive at a time, limiting performance to that of the drive being accessed. The mSATA_PCIX base on SiI-3124 chip-set supports FIS based switching which accesses multiple drives simultaneously, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of all the drives, including CD/DVD/BD drives