Lycom PCIe SATAII Host Card
2 eSATA External Ports

RAID and Port Multiplier capable!

Supports up to 10 External Hard Drives

Windows XP, 2000, 2003 server

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 and 10.6

Snow Leopard! 32 bit and 64 bit

 

 

  Lycom’s Port Multiplier capable host cards are an excellent benefit to your computer's storage performance resulting in enormous scaleability. This card mounts up to 2 drives directly or up to 10 drives when attached to enclosures with Port Multipliers like the Burly Port Multiplier Enclosures available here in 4, 5 and 8 Bay versions as well as Rack Mount. This card fully supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD and works with any SATA hardrive. Can be connected via a PCIe bus and only uses a single lane.

   Capable of mounting the drives each independently or in any combination of software RAID and JBOD. You can even create huge arrays across multiple port multiplier systems for never before seen speeds and certainly never before seen capacities on a direct connected host card. Very versatile with great performance combined with the cost benefit of being able to attach less expensive smaller capacity drives in greater numbers for a huge per GB savings.

    With its Silicon Image 3132 chipset, this single lane PCIe card is capable of around 150 MB/sec total throughput. If you require top performance then 4 port cards using faster chipsets and more PCIe lanes are a better choice.

 

Compatible with:
     
      -Windows Operating Systems
            XP, 95, NT, 98SE, ME ,2000, 2003 Server and DOS

      -Mac OS X v10.4 and up
       G5 with PCIe and MacPro - **Requires Driver download**

 

**Note: MacPro users must download the Silicon Image drivers and install on your MacPro.

10.4.x and 10.5.x driver installer package here
- 10.6 Snow Leopard driver available here

 

Port Multiplication:

  Please check out our Guide to Port Multipliers for a better description of how this super technology works.

 

Features and Compatibility

• Supports Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Windows7. Mac OS X v10.4 and up. Some Linux drivers available.
• Each port can support single direct connected drive or Port Multiplier with up to 5 drives
• SATAII bus compliance
• PCIe
• Supports full Hotswap capability
• Silicon Image chipset
• Built in RAID functions include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, JBOD or independent drives
• 2 External eSATA Ports
• 48 Bit LBA support - any drive capacity is supported
• Spread Spectrum Clocking compatibility with all SATA drives
• Firmware is upgradable via future updates
• FIS-based Port Multiplier capable
• 1 Year Warranty

 

**Note: Mac Users must download the Silicon Image drivers and install on your MacPro or G5.

10.4.x and 10.5.x driver installer package here

10.6 Snow Leopard driver available here - driver works in 32 and 64 bit

*Do not under any circumstances install the SiliconImage RAID5 driver on a Mac. The RAID5 driver is not stable and will not work correctly.*

 

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