Apricorn now gives you the power to unlock the speed, capacity and performance of a four 2.5" SATA drives with its PCI Drive Array
Apricorn’s PCI Drive Array is a flexible, high performance array of four 2.5” SATA hard drives or solid state drives on your choice of a single PCIe x4 or PCI-X board. Fully configurable, when used with Solid State drives the PCI Drive Array is capable of delivering sequential read speeds of up to 791 MB/sec, sequential write speeds of up to 675 MB/sec (actual test results below).
Using an Integrated Device Technology Tsi384 PCI express X4 to PCI-X 64-bit/133MHz bridge and the Silicon Image SiI3124A single chip host controller, the PCI Drive Array is capable of incorporating 4 embedded 2.5”, 5400/7200 RPM SATA hard drives or even faster solid state drives for total capacities of over 4TB*, making it a perfect fit for applications such as servers, industrial PCs, high speed data collection and storage systems that require maximum performance from their storage architecture.
The PCIe Drive Array is compatible with several systems and only uses one internal full length PCIe X4 slot; it fits perfectly in Apple’s Mac Pro system, server motherboards and is also small enough to fit in a 1U slot for industrial applications.
The PCI Drive Array contains drivers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Novell Netware operating systems for both RAID and non-RAID operations. The PCI Drive Array also includes configuration software and supports RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID 1+0 (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 PCI Drive Array Supports SATA II Native Command Queuing & SATA 1.0 Tagged Command Queuing, ensuring that drives stay fully loaded with queued commands.
Average Read / Write Speed Comparison for Solid State vs Rotating Media
- PCIe x4 or PCI-X Single board RAID sub-system
- Supports RAID (0,1, 5, 10) via Silicon Images SATARaid™ RAID management utility
- Utilizes Silicon Image Sil3124A Single Chip Host Controller
- Supports SATA II speeds up to 3Gb/s
- Supports SATA II Native Command Queuing & SATA 1.0 Tagged Command Queuing
- Incorporates 4 embedded 2.5”, 5400/7200 RPM SATA hard drives OR solid state drives for total capacities of over 4TB*
- Software drivers for Windows, Linux, and MAC OS for both RAID & non-RAID operations
Target Applications:
- Industrial PCs
- Fault tolerant applications
- High speed data collection
- Design applications
- Animation
- CAD/EDA simulation
- Video pros working with high-bit-rate assets
- Scientific computing
- PCIe or PCI-X CCA
- Apricorn driver CD & RAID management utilities
- Manual
1 terabyte (TB) = 1 trillion bytes = 1000 gigabytes
*4TB based on four 1TB 2.5” drive configuration. Accessible capacity will be less and actual capacity depends on the operating environment and formatting.
