Reference Design PB3124X8-4ESATA300 Key Features SteelVine Reference Board PCI-Express to 4-port External Serial ATA (eSATA) Host Bus Adapter • 4 External SATA II ports (3 Gbps) 8x physical, 4x/8x The PB3124X8-4ESATA300 reference board maximizes the performance of four exter- electrical PCI- nal Serial ATA (eSATA) ports, providing throughput performance of over 800 MB/s when Express host con- nection used with SteelVine Storage Processors or industry standard SATA port multipliers. Built Supports Port on the high-speed SiI 3124 SteelVine Controller, this reference design supports FIS- Multipliers with FIS based port multiplier switching and connects four external Serial ATA device ports to an based switching and SteelVine 8 lane physical, 4x/8x electrical PCI-express host connection. Storage Processors Using up to eight PCI-Express lanes, the The PB3124X8-4ESATA300 is compatible with Optional support PB3124X8-4ESATA300 provides a data channel Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating sys- for Software RAID that harnesses the total speed of up to 20 hard tems. Silicon Image provides drivers for RAID 0, 0, 1, 5, 10 drives, allowing manufacturers to take full 1, 5, 10 and non-RAID operation. advantage of the speed and plug-and-play con- The PB3124X8-4ESATA300 reference board venience of external SATA. 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 PB3124X8-4ESATA300 Features Real World Performance Physical Specifications Support for FIS • Attached to four hard drives, the PB3124X8- • Ports: Four(4) External SATA device ports, Based Port 4ESATA300 can reach a sequential read speed One(1) x8 lane PCI-Express host connector Multipliers of 2 22 27 7 M MB B//s s • Physical Dimensions: [L] 14.00cm (5.511in) The PB3124X8-4ESATA300 • Attached to 20 hard drives using four port by [H] 11.12cm (4.378in) supports port multipliers using multipliers, the PB3124X8-4ESATA300 can • External Cable: Maximum 2 meters (using FIS based switching. Traditional reach a sequential read speed of 8 88 89 9M MB B//s s, standard external Serial ATA cables) SATA controllers only support enabling up to four uncompressed HD streams CMD based switching which to be played simultaneously* Power Requirements can only access a single drive *Configuration: JBOD mode for the four • +12V +/- 8% 0.40A (max) from the PCI- at a time, limiting performance enclosures, FIS based switching port multi- Express Connector +3.3V +/- 9% 1.25A (max) to that of the drive being plier operation. Performance obtained using from the PCI-Express Connector accessed. The PB3124X8- the IOmeter test program. 4ESATA300 supports FIS System Requirements: based switching which Host Interface Features • Intel Pentium, Celeron, Xeon or equivalent accesses multiple drives • Interface Type: PCI-Express x8 lane physical, for Windows or Linux simultaneously, effectively supports autoswitching between x4 and x8 • G5 for Macintosh aggregating the bandwidth lane electrical • An available PCI-Express compliant slot of all the drives. • Voltage: 3.3V bus supported • An available external SATA device • Compliance: PCI-Express Specification, Revision 1.1 Agency Pre-Certifications • FCC (B), VCCI, ICES-003 Device Interface Features • Interface Type: External Serial ATA Gen2m Software Features • Speed: 3.0 Gbps CMD based switching • Operating System: Windows Server 2003, • Compliance: Serial ATA revision 2.5 (includ- Windows XP, Windows 2000, ing support for FIS based port multipliers) 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