Apricorn PEDA User manual

High performance array of four 2.5” SATA
drives on a single PCIe X4 board
Apricorn’s PCIe Drive Array is a exible, high performance array of four
2.5” SATA hard drives or solid state drives on a single PCIe X4 board.
Using an Integrated Device Technology Tsi384 PCI express X4 to PCI-X
64-bit/133MHz bridge and the Silicon Image SiI3124A single chip host
controller, the PCIe Drive Array is capable of incorporating 4 embedded
2.5”, 5400/7200 RPM SATA hard drives or even faster solid state drives for total
capacities of up to 4TB*, making it a perfect t for applications such as servers,
industrial PCs, high speed data collection and storage systems that require
maximum performance from their storage architecture.
The PCIe Drive Array is compatible with several systems and only uses one internal
full length PCIe X4 slot. It ts perfectly in Apple’s Mac Pro system, server motherboards
and is also small enough to t in a 1U slot for industrial applications.
The PCI Drive Array contains drivers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Novell Netware
operating systems for both RAID and non-RAID operations. The PCI Drive Array also
includes conguration software and supports RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID 1+0
(mirrored stripe), and RAID 5 (parity stripe), as well as JBOD and concatenated volumes
via the Silicon Image SATARaid™ RAID management utility.
Designed for optimum performance, the PCIe Supports SATA II Native Command Queuing
& SATA 1.0 Tagged Command Queuing, ensuring that drives stay fully loaded with queued
commands.
PCIe X4 Single board RAID sub-system
Supports RAID (0,1,5,10)viaSiliconImages
SATARaid™RAIDmanagementutilityaswell
as JBOD andconcatenatedvolumes
Utilizes Silicon Image Sil3124A Single Chip
Host Controller andIntegratedDevice
Technology Tsi384 PCIe to PCI-X bridge
Supports SATA II speeds up to 3Gb/s
Supports SATA II Native Command
Queuing&SATA1.0Tagged
Command Queuing
Incorporates 4embedded
2.5”, 5400/7200 RPM SATA hard
drives or solid state drives for
total capacities of up to 4TB*
Software driversfor
Windows, Linux, andMAC
OS for both RAID & non-
RAID operations
Visit our web site at www.apricorn.com or call 1-800-458-5448
©2009 Apricorn, Inc. Corporate Ofces: 12191 Kirkham Rd., Poway, CA. 92064 (updated 3/09)
PCIe Drive Array
high performance array of four 2.5” SATA drives
*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.

0200 400 600 800
Rotating Media
Solid State
Write speed
Read speed
For more information on PCIe Drive Array and other innovative Apricorn products
visit our web site at www.apricorn.com or call 1-800-458-5448
©2009 Apricorn, Inc. Corporate Ofces: 12191 Kirkham Rd., Poway, CA. 92064
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)