The DX4-BADGER is a XMC style mezzanine card, equipped with a quad-channel PCI Express® to SATA 6Gbps controller, and three on-board sockets for mSATA solid state drives (SSD). With a capacity available of up to 1TB as of current, mSATA is a fast growing storage module form factor. The Marvell® SATA 3.0 controller allows RAID or non RAID operation, and incorporates speed negotiation to backward support 3Gbps and 1.5Gbps. A front bezel eSATA connector is provided for attachment of an external SATA storage device.
The DX4-BADGER connects up to four SATA III (6G) devices to a PCIe 2.0 host, delivering up to 1 Gigabyte-per-second (GBps) bandwidth when a two-lane 5.0 Gbps interface is available. In addition, hardware RAID operation is supported, running with an enhanced ARM-based processor to offload the host CPU, and Marvell® HyperDuo technology for automated SSD/HDD tiering. With respect to the three mSATA sockets provided on the DX4-BADGER, a Terabyte RAID system can be simply configured.
Features
- Form factor XMC single-width mezzanine card 139mm x 74mm
- Stack height 10mm XMC to host (module PCB to carrier card PCB)
- Host I/F Connector P15 XMC (Option XMC 2.0)
- x 1 or x 2 PCI Express® 2.0 (5.0 Gbps), single or dual lane
- +3.3V only operated (VPWR not in use)
- SATA Controller
- Marvell® PCI Express® 2.0 to SATA III host controller
- Four SATA 6Gbps interface ports (backward support 3Gbps and 1.5Gbps)
- Native Command Queuing
- Hardware RAID 0/1/10
- On-the-fly AES encryption 128/256-bit
- AHCI driver support
- Marvell HyperDuo technology for automated SSD/HDD tiering
- eSATA Connector
- Front bezel eSATA connector for attachment of an external device
- eSATA is limited to 3Gbps by SATA specification
- eSATA is limited to 2m external cable length by SATA specification
- 6Gbps data rate and/or 5m eSATA cable length with suitable peripheral eSATA devices
- mSATA Module Sockets
- Up to three on-board mSATA SSD modules
- Half or full size accepted
- Various brands of mSATA SSDs available (e.g. Intel, Micron, Samsung)
- RAID option for dual or triple device configuration
Ordering Options
| Manuf. Part No | | Part Description |
| DX4-1-BADGER | | XMC Module, SATA 6Gbps quad channel controller, 3 x on-board mSATA SSD module sockets, 1 x eSATA F/P, hardware RAID 0/1/10, PCIe 2.0 dual-lane interface |
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