The first-to-market eight-port MegaRAID SATA 300-8X delivers the speed and bandwidth required by todays data intensive storage applications. With a high-bandwidth PCI-X interface, 128MB DDR SDRAM, and extensive fault tolerance capabilities, the MegaRAID SATA 300-8X delivers enterprise-class RAID performance and data availability. Fully compliant with SATA I and SATA II enhancements, the MegaRAID SATA 300-8X supports native command queuing, enclosure management, and up to 3Gb/sec transfer rate per port. | Key product specs: | | 8-Port 3Gb/s SATA RAID Controller | | Intel 80331 Processor | | 128MB embedded DDR Memory | | RAID Levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 |
| | First to Market SATA 3 Gb/s Enterprise-Level RAID ControllerMore than Just Double the Speed: The MegaRAID 300-8X provides twice the SATA speed and enhanced performance by fully exploiting 300 MB/s (3 Gb/s) speed, native and command queuing (NCQ / TCQ) for faster disk access. Full Compatibility: Compatible with all SATA 150 MB/s (1.5 Gb/s) and SATA 300 MB/s (3 Gb/s) drives and all major operating systems. True Data Protection: Intelligent battery backup protects every byte of data for up to 72-hours in the event of complete power failure Enterprise Level Features: With both, the MegaRAID SATA 300-8X provides enterprise level SATA features. This includes full enclosure management support. MegaRAID SAS Future Upgrade Path: Forward compatibility to upgrade SATA II drives to future MegaRAID SAS storage enclosures and also support for future SATA port multipliers to scale to more that eight drives. |
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The Deskstar 7K80, which will ship in 40 and 80 GB capacities, has been designed for high-volume manufacturing. It includes the key SATA II features - 3 Gb/s data transfer rate, NCQ and Staggered Spin-up. As with all the other models, the drive also includes Hitachis unique load/unload technology, which is a safety ramp for the read-write heads that protects user data in non-power mode. | Hitachi Serial ATA 2 | - 300MB/sec Interface Transfer Rate
- Not currently featured by other HDD vendors
- Supported by controllers such as:
Intel ICH7, NVidia Nforce4, Promise Technology TX300 / 2300, LSI MeagRAID SATA II 300-8X - Drives ship with default set to 150MB/sec (so they work with legacy controllers)
- Download the Hitachi Feature Tool from our web site to switch up to 300MB/sec
- Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
- Dynamically re-orders queued commands
- IOMeter benchmark shows up to 70% performance increase with a queue depth of 32
- Staggered (delayed) Spin-Up
- Useful for power management in multi-drive arrays
- Backward Compatible
- Compatible with SATA 1 devices (running at 150MB/sec)
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