Expansion

Inside the Shuttle product, space is left for one 5.25" device and one 3.5" device. These are housed in a detachable chassis which makes installing and removing storage devices a breeze. So in terms of internal expansion the machine is already filled with devices right out of the box.

PCI

The inclusion of a PCI slot means instant expandability using hundreds of existing audio interfaces and DSP cards. PCI has been the standard way of moving large amounts of audio to and from the computer system. Simple innovation like a rubber button on the chassis, ensure that your PCI card doesn't touch the power supply and create a short. The Shuttle XPC System is small and will house virtually all 7" PCI cards.

PCI Express

The most significant PC bus architecture change in over a decade, PCI Express is a next-generation system bus providing a high-speed interconnect designed to evolve current PCI technology and address the increasing bandwidth demands of emerging graphics in such next-generation applications as 3D games, professional 3D content creation, high-definition video editing, and more.

Not limited to graphics, PCI Express architecture will also usher in higher bandwidth for a new generation of gigabit Ethernet, high-performance storage controllers, High-Definition video capture controllers, and many other high-performance PC devices.

*PCI Express Technology only available on some Shuttle PCs models

Built-in PCI Express Mini Card Slot

PCI Express is the open standards- based successor to PCI and its variants for server- and client-system I/O interconnects. Unlike PCI and PCI-X, which are based on 32- and 64-bit parallel buses, PCI Express uses high-speed serial link technology similar to that found in Gigabit1 Ethtonyernet, Serial ATA (SATA), and Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS). PCI Express reflects an industry trend to replace legacy shared parallel buses with high-speed point-to-point serial buses.

Serial ATA

The future of hard drive performance is here! Serial ATA facilitates high-speed storage transfers with up to a fifty percent increase in data throughput over previous technology. In RAID 0 configurations, Serial ATA-150 hard disk drive performance is further enhanced to a theoretical maximum throughput of up to three-hundred Megabytes per second, up to three times the throughput of previous generation disk drives in non-RAID configurations.

*Serial ATA Technology only available on some Shuttle PCs models

Ports

The many ports on the outside of the Shuttle PCs mean almost limitless expansion capability for adding hard drives and audio interfaces.