Four eSATA (6Gb) Ports PCIe x4 V2 Host Support Port Multiplier - eS3-PCIe24

Product Description

Using up to four lanes PCI-Express Gen 2, eS3-PCIe24 provides a 20Gb/s data channel 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 SATAIII.

Over 1300MB/sec transfers have been measured with four sBOX-eS configured as RAID0. The eSATA ports on eS3-PCIe24 is a 6Gb/s port, fully compliance SATA III spec, making them ideal for connecting multi drive storage solutions through Port Multiplier bridge boards old 3.0Gb or newer 6Gb/s PM bridges.
Support for FIS Based Port Multipliers

The eS3-PCIe24 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 eSATA-PCIe8, based 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.

Our test shows 20x drive RAID0 via four sBOX-eS - SATA III Port Multiplier enclosure - read/write of 1300MB/a can be achieved

Our eS3-PCIe24 offers 4x independent 6Gb/s eSATA is an indispensable host controller that provides FAST and COST effective solutions for massive storage.