Introduction:

The PCI-Express SATA controller card brings a high performance 6.0Gbps hardware RAID 0/RAID 1 solution to desktop / computer storage applications utilizing a native 1-Lane PCI Express 2.0 interface. The card supports Serial-ATA 6Gbps devices compliant with SATA Revision 3.0 specification and ATA/ATAPI-7 specification. It is also backward compatible with SATA 1.5Gbps and 3.0Gbps devices.

The orientation and position of the two internal SATA ports are well designed so that the cable wiring fits easily in small form factor computer chassis.2-port eSATA version for external storage connectivity is also available on specific models.

Features & Specification

General

- Based on Marvel 88SE9128 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA 6Gbps hardware RAID controller

- 1-Lane PCI-Express 2.0 interface supports communication speed of 2.5Gbps and 5.0Gbps

- Compliant with PCI-Express 2.0 base specification

- Unique hard drive activity LED indicator circuit design: The LED blinks when there is read/write activity on any one of the hard drive connected to the motherboard SATA port or to this add-on card

- Supports low profile computer case only with the optional low profile bracket

- Supports Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / Server 2003~2008 32/64-bit and Linux

Serial-ATA (SATA) Interface

- Two SATA 6.0Gbps ports (internally, externally or their combination)

- Compliant with SATA 3.0

- Supports communication speed of 6.0Gbps, 3.0Gbps and 1.5Gbps

- Compatible with SATA-III (6.0Gbps), SATA-II (3Gbps) SATA-I (1.5Gbps) hard drives and SSD

- Supports Gen 1i, Gen 1x, Gen 2i, Gen 2m, Gen 2x and Gen 3i

- Supports hardware RAID 0 and RAID 1

- Supports Native Command Queue (NCQ)

- Supports SATA port multiplier FIS based switching or command based switching

- Supports SATA port hot-plug

- Supports AHCI 1.0 and IDE programming interface

- Supports ATA and ATAPL commands

Parallel-ATA (PATA/IDE) Interface

- One PATA port supporting 2 ATA/ATAPI/IDE devices (Master and Slave)

- Compliant with ATA/ATAPI-7 specification

- Supports DMA protocols, and up to UDMA 150Mbps data transfer rate

- Supports multiword DMA and PIP modes for data transfer

- Supports IDE programming interface