Key Features:
What is RAID?
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Drives. Put simply, this means taking multiple matching drives and arranging them together to achieve large storage space, speed, data protection, or any combination of the three. The MAXPower eSATA 6G RAID PCIe 2.0 Controller Card supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 levels as well as supporting JBOD (SPAN and individual drive modes).
RAID 0 (Stripe) Data is split into blocks over two or more drives at same time for high speed and large capacity.
RAID 1 (Mirror) Data is written at same time to two drives only for highest level of data safety and redundancy.
RAID 10 (1+0) Data is Striped (RAID 0) over two Mirrored sets (RAID 1) of drives for fast redundancy.
JBOD (SPAN / N-RAID) The physical drives are put together without RAID to form one logical volume.
RAID 5 (Stripe with Parity) With RAID 5, data is striped for speed like a RAID 0, but a duplication or parity is built in to protect your data from a single drive failure. This results in fast performance comparable to a RAID 0, but with the added benefit of protection.
RAID 5 incorporates striping of data just like in a RAID 0 array, however, in a RAID 5 there are redundant pieces of the data that are also distributed across the drives and are referred to as parity. Having the parity blocks staggered across each drive allows any single drive in the RAID 5 array to fail without any data loss.
Port Multiplier Support
In addition to supporting any single or dual eSATA enclosure, the NewerTech MAXPower 6G PCIe eSATA RAID Capable Controller Card supports port multiplier enclosures to connect up to 5 drives into a single eSATA port. By supporting port multiplier enclosures, the NewerTech MAXPower 6G PCIe eSATA RAID can provide massive storage and increased data protection by connecting enough drives for protective RAID arrays such as RAID 1,10, & 5.
Adds Faster Than Factory Interface To Mac Pros From faster backups and file transfers to high-end Audio/Video editing, connecting an eSATA interface equipped device to the NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 RAID Capable Controller Card can take data transfer performance to an entirely new level. Optimally compatible with Mac Pro models and PCs with an available PCIe 2.0 slot, the NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 RAID Capable Controller Card works with ANY eSATA interfaced equipped external hard drive or optical drive. to deliver significantly faster data transfer rates over the fastest factory equipped Mac Pro interface of FireWire 800.
Future Ready Yet Fully Backward Compatible The NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 RAID Capable Controller Card is like a "performance assurance policy" as conventional hard disk drives and SSDs migrate to the SATA 6Gb/s standard. Installing the card now offers immediate speeds gains while making a Mac Pro or PC future ready for even greater speed gains. Like all good upgrades, the card doesn't leave the past behind. The NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G PCIe 2.0 RAID Capable Controller Card is fully backward compatible with PCIe 1.0 slots as well as previous generations of SATA 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s drives.
*SATA 6Gb/s speeds (600MB/s) will be limited by the PCIe x1 bandwidth (500MB/s total for x1 PCIe 2.0 or 250MB/s total for x1 PCIe 1.0)
