Glyph Technologies EC2-CARD
2-Port PCI Express eSATA Adapter Card

EC2-CARD

Glyph Technologies' EC2 is an eSATA card capable of delivering higher bandwidth than FireWire can, up to 125MB/s on each of it's eSATA connections.  It's a 3Gbps/port SATA II card which uses a PCIe slot in your computer.  Using eSATA, copy speeds will increase significantly when moving large amounts of data from one drive to another.  Typically, a GT 050Q can transfer around 70MB/s when connected via FireWire 800.  If connected to our EC2 card, speeds of over 110MB/s are easily attainable using the same drive.  Higher bandwidth is quite handy when you need to backup the entire contents of your 1.5TB GT 050Q drive.  Best of all, it's quite affordable and ships with a 1-meter eSATA cable.

Audio applications like Pro Tools also work well using our EC2 card.  We've seen slightly better performance using a GT 050Q connected via eSATA compared to FireWire 800. I t's only slightly better becuase the drive itself is the limiting factor, not the speed of the bus.  A single disk spindle can only play so many audio tracks with edits, and using a faster connection to the drive doesn't actually deliver more tracks of audio.  However, in some situations, having the audio interface on one bus, your FireWire bus for example, and storage on your eSATA bus makes a lot of sense.  Especially when you need the fastest speed possible for storage and the best reliability for your audio interface.

In a video capture and editing environment, the highest bandwidth possible is needed.  The EC2 maximizes the connection to your GT 050Q delivering over 100MB/s of sustained transfer.

The EC2 supports all Serial ATA II features, including 3.0 Gbps SATA II transfer speeds, Native Command Queuing, port multipliers with FIS-based switching, programmable output signal swing strengths for longer external cables or extended backplanes, hot plugging, enclosure management and ATAPI device support.

Our Part #  EC2-CARD