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.
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Works great under Linux
This product works perfectly under Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.3) and works better than the Marvell 9235 card it replaced. I haven't seen any corruption on the eSATA drive stacks (I didn't see any in the Marvell either, though it was a lot slower,) and it splits the drives up into two sets of 4 drives. Has RAID capability, but I prefer to use mdadm and have access to the S.M.A.R.T. capabilities of the drives. Haven't seen any issues at all with mdadm and monthly checks seem to work twice as fast even though I have more drives than before.
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