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• Direct Connect to SATA Drive
• Supports both HDD and ODD
• Support HDD S.M.A.R..T. information (with iSMART utility)
• DC Power Input: Big IDE 4-pin DC Power Connector

U2-SATA22 is an USB 2.0 to SATA bridge board. It has an USB 2.0 high-speed device port and a SATA 1.5Gbps/3Gbps host port. The high performance USB interface can connect to any high speed or full speed USB host or USB hub and can instantly be detected as a USB mass storage device. The maximum throughput can goes up to 30MB/sec.

USB to SATA Bridge Board

• USB 2.0:
• Compliant with USB 2.0 specifications and passes USB certification.
• Supports USB high speed (480Mbps) and full speed (12Mbps) transfer rates.
• USB Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport Specification Compliant.
• Serial ATA:
• Serial ATA Revision 2.5 Specification Compliant
• Supports Serial-ATA generation 2 transfer rate of 3Gb/s
• 2K bytes data buffer for downstream and upstream optimized data transfer performance
• Vendor/Product related configuration information can be customized thru external I2C compatible Serial EEPROM or SPI serial flash.
• Serial EEPROM contents can be updated through USB interface
• Firmware can be upgraded easily through USB interface.
• Support HDD S.M.A.R..T. information (with iSMART utility)
• Provides pin header for Power and SATA Activity Indicator LEDs
• Self Powered Mode Operation
• DC Power Input:
  • Big IDE 4-pin DC Power Connector

• 6.40cm x 3.65cm x 2.83cm
• Direct Connect Vertical type

• Desktop PC: with either a built-in USB (1.0 or 2.0) controller or an USB (1.0 or 2.0) to PCI Host Adapter equipped with an external USB port.
• Laptop PC: with either a built-in USB (1.0 or 2.0) controller or an USB (1.0 or 2.0) to CardBus PC Card equipped with an external USB port.

• U2-SATA22 Compatibility Test Report(PDF 1MB)

• No Driver Installation
• Windows ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7; MacOS 9.x or above; Linux (kernel 2.4.18 or above)
• Driver Requirements
  • Windows 98 (provided by Prolific) ; Mac OS 8.6 (provided by Apple in their website)

• U2-SATA22 Bridge Board
• Overview