Magma Expressbox7 is a PCI Express to PCI Express Expansion chassis system that provides a simple, cost-effective solution for expanding the available PCI Express slots of workstations and servers. This allows for significant cost savings to organizations since it eliminates the need to invest in new computer hardware in order to be able to accommodate the growing need for I/O expandability.
Optimal Setup for Enhancing PCI Express I/O Capabilities
Expressbox7 expansion solution provides 7 full-length PCI Express slots. This is a stand alone chassis in an industry standard enclosure with its own power supply. The PCI Express slots are equipped to be hot swappable. This chassis allows the flexibility to seamlessly expand I/O capabilities of servers and workstations utilizing the built-in transparency of PCI Express architecture.
Endless Application Options
Expressbox7 is the box of choice when augmenting Blade Server capabilities by adding Blade compute engines built around Expressbox7.
Expressbox7 satisfies the ever increasing requirements of PCI Express I/O fabric in servers that capitalize on inherent PCI Express architecture for I/O virtualizations and workstations that implement VMware.
Expressbox7 provides the basis for ?carrier grade? communication equipment built around the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA).
ExpressBox7 can accommodate up to 7 PCI Express cards with a MacPro providing users with the capability to achieve full track counts in this configuration.
* Digidesign qualification pending
Easy Installation
Expressbox7 consists of a PCI Express Host Card, a cable and a chassis. Magma's Expressbox7 is automatically configured by the System BIOS making all of the slots transparent to the host computer.
Benefits
Industrial solution for adding up to 7 PCI Express cards to one computer
Allows for attachment to full-length PCI Express cards to computers with limited card space
Power to individual PCI Express slots can be selectively turned off without powering down entire system
Low profile host card allows for easy installation in low profile computers
Supports peer to peer transfers between cards in slots
Optional redundant power supplies share load during normal operation and in the event of a failure of one the other assumes full load sounding an audible alarm
Interconnect Bandwidth
1GBytes/sec simplex
2GBytes/sec full duplex
Enclosure
4U Rack-mount
19" wide, 7" High, 17.7" Depth
Removable/cleanable air filter
24 lbs or 11.840Kg
System Cooling
One 82.5CFM Backplane Fan
One Power Supply Fan
Hard Drive Support
Optional Drive Cage
Host Connections and Power Consumption
x8 PCI Express connector, x4 slot speeds
1.2A @ +3.3V maximum
Low profile
PCI Express Bus Specification Revision 1.1
Rack Installation
Optional Chassis Trak® rack slide kit
Optional PCI Express card hold down kit
Chassis Power Supply
AC Input : 90-264VAC
Input Frequency : 47-63HZ
Input Current : 6.3A Max
DC Output : 400Watts Max
+12V : 22.0A maximum
+5V : 8.0A maximum
+3.3V : 28.0A maximum
Environmental
Ambient Temperature 0º to 50º C
Storage Temperature -20º to 60º C
Relative Humidity: 5% to 85% non-condensing
MTBF
53,000 Hours
Regulatory Compliance
FCC Class AVerified
CE Certified
UL/CIL Listed
Supported Operating Systems
Windows XP/Vista 2000 Server 2003
MacOS X 10.4+
Linux Kernel 2.6x+
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