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AD5HPMSXA
This 5-Port HPM XA is a feature rich Hardware Port Multiplier that enables connecting up to 5 SATA drives to a single SATA port.
It is a perfect solution for attaching large quantity of hard drives as individual drive or as a RAID volume with redundancy to a Desktop or Server. This HPM can also be used to connect 5 SATA optical drives such as DVD-RRW or Blu-Ray drives to do simultaneous data copying. Configuration can be set via a set of onboard jumpers or the bundled software utility under Windows OS
Supports RAID0 (Striping), RAID1 (Mirroring), RAID3, RAID5 (Parity), RAID10 (Mirrored Striped), JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks or independent drive*), BIG (Concatenation), Clone Mode (N-Way Mirror) using built-in hardware RAID.
*Independent drive configuration and optical drives are supported only when connected to controllers with Silicon Image Sil3124, Sil3132 chip set or controllers that are Port Multiplier compatible.
(See Addonics Host Controllers)
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Package content:
5 Port HPM-XA on standard height PCI bracket, low profile PCI bracket, Y power cable, Driver CD with configuration and monitor software utility, User Guide.
OS Support:
Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7, Mac OS X and above, Linux kernel 2.6 and above.
Addonics part reference: AD5HPMSXA