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Reference Design
PB3124X8-4ESATA300
SteelVine Reference Board
Key Features
PCI-Express to 4-port External Serial ATA (eSATA) Host Bus Adapter
• 4 External SATA II ports (3 Gbps)
The PB3124X8-4ESATA300 reference board maximizes the performance of four exter-
• 8x physical, 4x/8x electrical PCI-
nal Serial ATA (eSATA) ports, providing throughput performance of over 800 MB/s when
Express host con-
used with SteelVine Storage Processors or industry standard SATA port multipliers. Built
nection
on the high-speed SiI 3124 SteelVine Controller, this reference design supports FIS-
• Supports Port Multipliers with FIS
based port multiplier switching and connects four external Serial ATA device ports to an 8 lane physical, 4x/8x electrical PCI-express host connection.
based switching and SteelVine Storage Processors
Using up to eight PCI-Express lanes, the
The PB3124X8-4ESATA300 is compatible with
PB3124X8-4ESATA300 provides a data channel
Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating sys-
that harnesses the total speed of up to 20 hard
tems. Silicon Image provides drivers for RAID 0,
drives, allowing manufacturers to take full
1, 5, 10 and non-RAID operation.
advantage of the speed and plug-and-play convenience of external SATA.
The PB3124X8-4ESATA300 reference board allows manufacturers to get to market quickly
The eSATA ports on the PB3124X8-4ESATA300
with a pre-certified design built on Silicon
reference board have a bandwidth of 3 Gbps per
Image's proven SteelVine Controllers. Complete
port, making them ideal for connecting multi-
mechanical and electrical design files, gerber
drive storage solutions like those based on the
files, BOMs, schematics, user documentation,
SiI4723 or SiI4726 SteelVine Storage Processors
and drivers are available upon request.
or storage solutions based on industry standard SATA port multipliers such as the SiI 3726.
PB3124X8-4ESATA300
• Optional support for Software RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
PB3124X8-4ESATA300
Features Support for FIS Based Port Multipliers The PB3124X8-4ESATA300 supports port multipliers using FIS based switching. Traditional SATA controllers only support CMD based switching which can only access a single drive at a time, limiting performance to that of the drive being accessed. The PB3124X8-
Real World Performance
Physical Specifications
• Attached to four hard drives, the PB3124X84ESATA300 can reach a sequential read speed of 227 MB/s • Attached to 20 hard drives using four port multipliers, the PB3124X8-4ESATA300 can reach a sequential read speed of 889MB/s, enabling up to four uncompressed HD streams to be played simultaneously* *Configuration: JBOD mode for the four enclosures, FIS based switching port multiplier operation. Performance obtained using the IOmeter test program.
• Ports: Four(4) External SATA device ports, One(1) x8 lane PCI-Express host connector • Physical Dimensions: [L] 14.00cm (5.511in) by [H] 11.12cm (4.378in) • External Cable: Maximum 2 meters (using standard external Serial ATA cables)
4ESATA300 supports FIS based switching which accesses multiple drives simultaneously, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of all the drives.
• +12V +/- 8% 0.40A (max) from the PCIExpress Connector +3.3V +/- 9% 1.25A (max) from the PCI-Express Connector System Requirements:
Host Interface Features
• Interface Type: PCI-Express x8 lane physical, supports autoswitching between x4 and x8 lane electrical • Voltage: 3.3V bus supported • Compliance: PCI-Express Specification, Revision 1.1 Device Interface Features
CMD based switching
Power Requirements
• Interface Type: External Serial ATA Gen2m • Speed: 3.0 Gbps • Compliance: Serial ATA revision 2.5 (including support for FIS based port multipliers)
• Intel Pentium, Celeron, Xeon or equivalent for Windows or Linux • G5 for Macintosh • An available PCI-Express compliant slot • An available external SATA device Agency Pre-Certifications
• FCC (B), VCCI, ICES-003 Software Features
• Operating System: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Macintosh OS X, Linux
PB3124X8-4ESATA300
FIS based switching
Silicon Image, Inc. 1060 E. Arques Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94085 T 408.616.4000 F 408.830.9530 www.siliconimage.com
© 2006 Silicon Image, Inc. All rights reserved. Silicon Image, the Silicon Image logo, SteelVine, the SteelVine logo, SiI and SiI3124 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Silicon Image, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks are property of their respective holders. Product specifications are subject to change without notice. Part Number: PB-3124X8-4ESATA300
SiI-PB-53 rev1 7/06
