User Guide

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Rotating Media
Solid State
Write speed
Read speed
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Specications
Box Contents PCIe CCA w/ drives, Apricorn
driver CD & RAID management
utilities, Manual
Data Transfer Rates SATA II speeds up to 3Gb/s
Interface SATA II
Dimensions & weight 4.8” x 12.28”
Warranty 1 year limited
System Requirements PCIe X4 slot
Individual hard drive specs
Buffer Size 8MB
RPM 5400/7200 RPM for HDDs
NA for Solid State Drives
Average seek time 12 ms
Shock - non operating 1000G 1ms
Shock - operating 300G 2ms
Ordering info
Ordering Information Apricorn Part Number:
PEDA-xxxx (xxxx = total
capacity in GB’s)
*One terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes
4TB based on four 1TB 2.5” drive conguration. accessible capacity will be less and actual capacity depends on the operating environment and formatting.
Features
PCIe X4 Single board RAID sub-system
Supports RAID (0,1, 5, 10) via Silicon Images SATARaid
™
RAID
management utility
Utilizes Silicon Image Sil3124A Single Chip Host Controller
Supports SATA II speeds up to 3Gb/s
Supports SATA II Native Command Queuing & SATA 1.0
Tagged Command Queuing
Incorporates 4 embedded 2.5”, 5400/7200 RPM SATA hard
drives OR solid state drives for total capacities of up to 4TB*
Software drivers for Windows, Linux, and MAC OS for both
RAID & non-RAID operations
Target applications:
• Industrial PCs
• Fault tolerant applications
• High speed data collection
• Design applications
Write speed 675 MB/sec
Read speed 791 MB/sec
Write speed 234 MB/sec
Read speed 239 MB/sec
Average Read / Write Speed Comparison for
Solid State vs Rotating Media
Intel X25-E
(Raid 0)
7200 RPM
(Raid 0)