[Pc_Support] PCI-Express SATA RAID cards

[Damien McKenna]

Some PCI-Express SATA RAID cards new to the market.  Unfortunately I
only have two PCI-E x2 slots, no x4's, so I can't use them :-\  Too bad
the second PCI-E x16 can't be made to run as a regular x8 or x4 slot
when not in SLI mode.


http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/rocketraid-2320-pci-express.htm

HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 PCI Express SATA II RAID Host Controller 

 * PCI Express x4 Card 
 * SATA II and SATA I hard drive support 
 * Up to 300MB/s for each SATA II drive port 
 * Supports RAID level 0, 1, 5, 10 and JBOD 
 * Online Capacity Expansion and Online RAID Level Migration (OCE/ORLM) 
 * Native Command Queuing (NCQ) 
 * SAF-TE enclosure management 
 * Hard drive activity and Failed LED support 
 * Staggered drive spin-up support 
 * Hot swap and hot spare 
 * Write-through and write-back cache support 
 * Quick and Background initialization for quick RAID configuration 
 * Online array roaming 
 * BIOS booting support (INT13) 
 * Single RAID Cross Adapter Support 
 * 64bit LBA for over 2TB support 
 * Automatic RAID rebuild of failed drive 
 * S.M.A.R.T drive monitoring for status and reliability 
 * Browser-based RAID management software 
 * Command Line Interface (CLI) 
 * SMTP for email notification 
 * Operating system support for Windows, Windows x64 Editions, Linux
(open source), FreeBSD (open source) and Mac OS X 


http://www.topmicrousa.com/arc-1220.html

Areca ARC-1220 8 ports PCI-Express to SATA-II RAID 6 Adapters

Areca services customers with a complete spectrum of SATA-II RAID
adapters that support 4, 8 or 16 SATA-II devices on a single host
adapter with today maximum I/O performance PCI bus interface, PCI-X and
PCI-Express. Unparalleled Performance The SATA-II RAID controllers raise
the standard to higher performance levels with several enhancements
including Intel high-performance I/O Processor (500 MHz), a new DDR
memory architecture (DDR333) and high performance PCI-Express bus
interconnection. Unsurpassed Data Availability The SATA-II RAID adapters
with extreme performance ASIC RAID 6 engine installed provide the
highest RAID 6 feature to and delivers RAID 5 Tekram services customers
with a complete spectrum of SATA-II RAID adapters that support 4, 8 or
16 SATA-II devices on a single host adapter with today maximum I/O
performance PCI bus interface, PCI-X and PCI-Express.



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