Promise Technology SATA300 TX4, Bulk F29S3T410000000/BULK Leaflet

The 4-port Promise SATA300 TX4 SATA controller offers a low-cost solution

for connecting up to four of the latest, high-performance SATA 3Gb/s disk

drives to PC motherboards with a PCI interface.While drive capabilities

continue to advance at a fast rate, the vast majority of available motherboards

still use the PCI interface to connect peripheral devices.With the SATA300

TX4, users can benefit from a flexible solution that connects the most

advanced drives to their existing system, the ideal future-proofing upgrade.

While storage system performance is affected by components throughout the

storage system, SATA drives with 3Gb/s can deliver significantly faster burst

data throughput. Like a faster data cache, the faster burst rate when using the

latest 3Gb/s drives should provide a snappier feel when opening small files

and conducting the day-to-day tasks that many desktop and workstation PCs

are required to perform.

The controller supports Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives and conforms to Serial ATA II,

Extensions to Serial ATA 1.0a specification.This support also includes Native

Command Queuing and Disk Activity LED headers support. In addition to

Native Command Queuing, the controller also supports Tagged Command

Queuing with drives that can take advantage of this capability. Command

Queuing increases I/O performance by intelligently reordering data requests

so that the data can be more quickly accessed than if the commands weren’t

ordered.

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4 Serial ATA 3Gb/s Ports for
support of up to 4 drives

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Native Command Queuing
(NCQ)

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SATA Tagged  Command
Queuing (TCQ)

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Large LBA support for drives
above 137GB

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Supports Serial ATAPI devices

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Disk Activity LED Headers

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Flexible future-proof upgrade
for users with motherboards
that only have a PCI interface