NA333A-R 3U-16 bay SAS/SATA JBOD with PCIe Slot Expander Product Description
Host Interface | External PCI-Express 2.0 x8 |
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HDD Interface | SAS/SATA 3.0/6.0 Gbps |
Data Transfer Rate | Up to 40Gbps |
PCI-e Slot Expansion | 1*PCI-e 8x(8 Lane) slot or 2*PCI-e 4x(4 Lane) slots |
Storage Expansion | NA333A can be daisy chain together as many as the Raid Control Card can be recognised by Host PC or Server. |
LED Display(Tray) | White – Power on indicator Blue – Busy (HDD Accessing) indicator |
LED Display for Environmental Monitoring | FAN normal – Green; fail – Red (too slow rpm or stop) TEMP normal – Green; over 50°C – Red |
Dimension | 55.9(D) x 48.2(W) x 13.1(H) cm |
Material | Heavy-duty cold-rolled steel |
Power Supply | 400W mini-Redundant Input: 90 – 230 VAC 50- 60 Hz Output: +5V and +12V DC |
Cooling | Two 75 x 75 x 28 mm Hot-Swappable Blowers |
O.S. support | OS Independent (OS will be provided from the PCI-e Raid Control card manufacturer) |
Daisy Chain Diagram Explanation
NA333A-R is the second generation of PCI-e(Host) to SAS/SATA 3/6 Gbps(Disk) 3U-16 bay storage product line from Netstor. It’s not only an external storage capacity expansion but also features PCI-Express slot expander to solve the PCI-e slot shortage problem in 1U or 2U server while you want to expand the big sotrage capacity as well as the PCI-e slot(s).
The chassis pacakge is including a PCI-Express host adaptor and an external PCI-e 8x cable for you to convert and connect the host system internal PCI-E slot becoming external port into NA333A-R and it’s designed to provide up to three(3) PCI-e slots for plugging any standard SAS/SATA PCI-e Raid card to configue the NA333A-R to be Raid Subsystem and any PCI-e add-on card while PCI-e slot is shortage in the existing server or workstation. It means NA333A-R only requests a PCI-e slot from host server but provides a mass stoage capacity and 3 more PCI-e slots to customer.
Host Requirement and Cable length available
- Apple Mac Pro or PC workstation with one available PCI-e x8 slot
- External PCI-e cable available length – up to 7 Meter
Validated SAS/SATA HBA
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Adaptec RAID 51645 | ![]() |
3ware SAS 9750-16i4e |
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Adaptec RAID 31605 | ![]() |
MegaRAID SAS9280-16i4e MegaRAID SAS 9260-16i |
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ARC-1880ix-16 | ![]() |
RocketRAID 3540 |
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ARC-1882ix-16 | ![]() |
EXPRESSSAS R60F |