2 Port PCI Express 2.0 SATA III 6Gbps RAID Controller Card w/ 2 mSATA Slots and HyperDuo SSD Tiering

StarTech.com PEXMSATA3422 2 Port PCI Express 2.0 SATA III 6Gbps RAID Controller Card w/ 2 mSATA Slots and HyperDuo SSD Tiering

The PEXMSATA3422 PCI Express SATA Card helps you improve the overall speed and storage capacity of your computer by giving you multiple 6 Gbps SATA connections for connecting high-performance SSDs Solid State Drives and hard drives in a HyperDuo RAID array. Now, you can easily add two mSATA slots and two SATA III ports to your computer through a single PCIe x4 slot.

Featuring HyperDuo technology, the SATA card offers SSD auto-tiering which lets you balance the performance advantages of SSD storage with the cost-effectiveness and large capacity of standard hard drives. By combining SSD and HDD drives into a single volume up to 3 SSD 1 HDD, HyperDuo discreetly works in the background to identify and move frequently accessed files to the faster SSD drives for improved data throughput – up to 80% of SSD performance! Note: The HyperDuo automatic storage tiering feature is compatible with Windows® 8, 7, Vista, and XP only

This versatile RAID controller card helps to relieve the internal space constraints often associated with multi-drive configurations by letting you install two mSATA SSDs directly to the card via convenient, latching slots. With dual mSATA slots, as well as two internal SATA ports, the card offers an effective hardware RAID solution, with native RAID 0, 1, 10 support.

The PCIe SATA controller also offers Port Multiplier PM support, so you can connect multiple SATA drives to just one port, for a total of 7 drives up to 4 drives through PM on one port, plus a single drive to the other SATA port and two mSATA slots.

For added versatility, the controller card is equipped with a standard profile bracket and includes a low-profile/half-height bracket for installation in small form-factor computers.

Feature list

Host interface:	PCIe
Output interface:	mSATA, SATA
Internal:	Y
SATA revision:	3.0
Internal SATA ports quantity:	2
Logical block addressing LBA support:	48 bit
RAID levels:	0, 1, 10, JBOD
Data transfer rate max:	6 Gbit/s
RoHS compliance:	Y
Colour of product:	Green, Silver
Windows operating systems supported:	Y
Mac operating systems supported:	Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Linux operating systems supported:	Y
Server operating systems supported:	Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, Windows Server 2008 x64, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 x64, Windows Server 2012 x64
Operating temperature T-T:	5 - 50 °C
Storage temperature T-T:	-25 - 70 °C
Operating relative humidity H-H:	20 - 80 %
Package width:	170 mm
Package depth:	142 mm
Package height:	30 mm
Package weight:	160 g

2 Port PCI Express 2.0 SATA III 6Gbps RAID Controller Card w/ 2 mSATA Slots and HyperDuo SSD Tiering