The ATA NitroCannon is the perfect hardware-based RAID solution whether you are seeking the lightning fast data transfer rates of striping (RAID level 0) or you need the utmost in data reliability found with mirroring (RAID level 1). The ATA NitroCannon provides up to 133 Megabytes/second data transfer on each of its two built-in channels for unparalleled performance and reliability.

With the ATA NitroCannon you can add up to two drives per channel giving you access to 4 high-speed ATA drives. The ATA NitroCannon is compatible with ATA 33/66/100/133 drives.

ATA NitroCannon 133 Key Features

• Dual independent IDE channels, 133 Megabytes/second per channel supporting two drives per channel
• Backward compatible with ATA/33, ATA/66 and ATA/100 drives
• Supports RAID levels 0 (Striping), 1 (Mirroring) and 0 + 1 (Mirroring Striped Sets)
• Easily configurable from the BIOS
• Allows booting from a stripe or mirror
• Allows mirroring of the boot drive
• Can add "hot spare" drive to array for automatic rebuild
• Can coexist with existing SCSI and IDE devices
• Includes two 40-pin/80-wire cables
• 2 Year limited warranty

System Requirements

• PCI Bus
• Pentium Compatible processor at 166 MHz or faster
• Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP

ATA NitroCannon 133 Testimonials

"I just got a 0+1 (mirrored stripe) array for my system and let me say I'm quite amazed.  In a 0+1 setup, two drives are striped (both drives receive the same data simultaneously, resulting in HUGE speed increases), then the two striped sets are mirrored, creating a redundant array.  One drive in the array can fail completely (two if they are on the same stripe) without loss in data.

"My computer feels brand new, like someone opened the data floodgate.  The whole system just seems less bottlenecky.  Conservatively it is twice as fast loading applications.  Plus, 80 GB of redundant storage (no more backing up to CD) is nice.  This would be a real windfall for digital audio.

"I used a 'NitroCannon ATA133' RAID adapter (from www.raidtoolbox.com), and four 7200 RPM IBM 40 GB drives.  Total cost for the drives, controller and shipping was about $380.  Not bad when you can't get into an 80 gb tape backup for less than $500.  And the SPEED.

"The Nitrocannon card has caused me to postpone updating my PIII1000 indefinitely."

Darin J. Phillips
I.T. Assistant
Valley Research, Inc.