Apricorn PEDA Specifications

PCIe Drive Array
high performance array of four 2.5" SATA drives
High performance array of four 2.5" SATA
PCIe X4 Single board RAID sub-system
drives on a single PCIe X4 board
Supports RAID (0,1, 5, 10) via Silicon Images
SATARaid™ RAID management utility as well
Apricorn's PCIe Drive Array is a flexible, high performance array of four
as JBOD and concatenated volumes
2.5" SATA hard drives or solid state drives on a single PCIe X4 board.
Utilizes Silicon Image Sil3124A Single Chip
Host Controller and Integrated Device
Using an Integrated Device Technology Tsi384 PCI express X4 to PCI-X
Technology Tsi384 PCIe to PCI-X bridge
64-bit/133MHz bridge and the Silicon Image SiI3124A single chip host
controller, the PCIe Drive Array is capable of incorporating 4 embedded
Supports SATA II speeds up to 3Gb/s
2.5", 5400/7200 RPM SATA hard drives or even faster solid state drives for total
capacities of up to 4TB*, making it a perfect fit for applications such as servers,
Supports SATA II Native Command
Queuing & SATA 1.0 Tagged industrial PCs, high speed data collection and storage systems that require
Command Queuing
maximum performance from their storage architecture.
Incorporates 4 embedded
The PCIe Drive Array is compatible with several systems and only uses one internal
2.5", 5400/7200 RPM SATA hard
full length PCIe X4 slot. It fits perfectly in Apple's Mac Pro system, server motherboards
drives or solid state drives for
and is also small enough to fit in a 1U slot for industrial applications.
total capacities of up to 4TB*
Software drivers for
The PCI Drive Array contains drivers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Novell Netware
Windows, Linux, and MAC
operating systems for both RAID and non-RAID operations. The PCI Drive Array also
OS for both RAID & non-
includes configuration software and supports RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID 1+0
RAID operations
(mirrored stripe), and RAID 5 (parity stripe), as well as JBOD and concatenated volumes
via the Silicon Image SATARaid™ RAID management utility.
Designed for optimum performance, the PCIe Supports SATA II Native Command Queuing
& SATA 1.0 Tagged Command Queuing, ensuring that drives stay fully loaded with queued
commands.
*One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes
4TB based on four 1TB 2.5" drive configuration. accessible capacity will be less and actual capacity depends on the operating environment
and formatting.
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