Lycom PCIe SATAII Host Card
4 eSATA External Ports

RAID and Port Multiplier capable!

Supports up to 20 External Hard Drives
Windows XP, 2000, 2003 server, Vista and Linux

Mac OS - 10.4 and 10.7 - PCIe MacPro and PCIe Mac G5

 

Lion Compatible

  Lycom’s Port Multiplier capable host cards are THE choice of cards for your PCIe equipped Mac or PC. This card mounts up to 4 drives directly or up to 20 drives when attached to enclosures with Port Multipliers such as the Burly Port Multiplier Enclosures available here in 4, 5 and 8 Bay versions as well as Rack Mount. This card is the perfect card for use in all MacPro Towers including the 2008 8 Core Models. Works in Dual Core G5s as well, these are the last model G5s that had Dual Ethernet ports and PC4200 RAM.

   Capable of mounting the drives each independently or in any combination of software RAID. You can even create huge and incredibly fast 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. The throughput from drives attached to these cards is exceptional giving full 300 MB/sec access to each of the four SATAII specification eSATA ports.

This is an 8 Lane PCIe card. Can also operate at full speed utilitizing only 4 Lanes. Has a built in cooling fan that in our experience is VERY low noise output. This is a really 'cool' fan that impressed us with its quiet effectiveness and high tech design.

Compatible with:

• Mac OS 10.4 through 10.7 in MacPro and PCIe G5s
• Windows XP, 95, NT, 98SE, ME, 2000, 2003 Server, DOS, Vista ad Windows 7
• Linux 32 and 64 bit versions

Port Multiplication:

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

Features and Compatibility

• Mac OSX 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 SnowLeopard, 10.7 Lion
  *10.7 MacPro drivers available
• Supports Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista and 7. Linux
• Each port can support single direct connected drive or Port Multiplier with up to 5 drives
• SATAII bus compliance -- 300 MB/sec burst transfers! Auto switch 150/300 MB/sec auto negotiation
• PCIe for all MacPro and PCIe Dual Core G5 (identify this PCIe G5 by the fact it has PC4200 RAM)
• Supports full Hotswap capability
• Silicon Image 3124 chipset
• Built in RAID functions include RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, JBOD for Windows
• RAID 5 Capable with the Windows Platform
• 4 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: MacPro and G5 users must download and install the Silicon Image drivers.

10.4.x and 10.5.x driver installer package here

- 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.7 Lion driver available here

    Snow Leopard/Lion driver for MacPro and OS 10.6+ only