Press Release

USB/eSATA to Dual SATA Storage Device Controller – SPIF245A

Issued on:2008/11/10

SunplusIT have announced a USB/eSATA to Dual SATA Storage Device Controller – SPIF245A. The SPIF245A controller is implemented with one USB and three 3GHz SATA II interfaces and allows for a PC host to be connected through USB/eSATA interface to two external storage devices which may be any of SATA Hard Disk Drives, SSD, DVD-RW, BluRay DVD player and other storage devices.

One distinctive feature of SPIF245 is its flexible storage connectivity which can realize versatile external storage devices for users of slim PCs, Notebooks or Netbooks to extend the storage capacity easily.

Another distinctive feature is JBOD which aggregates the capacity of two odd-sized direct-attached HDDs and presents to the PC host a single hard disk drive. SPIF245A supports USB Read16 and Write 16 commands which allows the Windows application programs to access the storage devices with 2TB and above capacity.

SPIF245A is designed and developed to meet the requirements of SOHO and home users. It provides best the solution comprising excellent price/performance, system compatibility, reliability and safety compliance for system makers to develop easily a two-bay external HDD or ODD storage system.

SPIF245A controller has been released to mass production. Please contact SunplusIT or relative agent to get more detailed product information.


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Sunplus Innovation Technology, the former Controller & Peripheral BU of Sunplus Technology, was spun off from its mother company, Sunplus Technology Corp., on December 1st, 2006 and located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. Major share-holders are Sunplus Technology and the employees.
Sunplus Innovation Technology researches, develops, manufactures and markets the Microcontrollers and System-on-Chips with embedded software solutions targeting Human Interface Devices, PC External HDD/ODD Drives, PC/NB Camera and Industry Control market segments.
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