Sonnet Tempo
SATA E4i, PCI Express SATA II Host Controller
4 Internal 3Gb/sec SATA II Ports! Power Mac G5 Dual Core/Quad Core and XP Compatible!
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Sonnet Tempo SATA E4i SATA II Host Controller
Supports: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, & JBOD
Delivers full throughput of SATA 3Gb/s (SATA II) drives!
Sonnet Tempo
SATA E4i, PCI Express (PCIe) SATA II Host Controller
The Sonnet Tempo SATA E4i offers 4 internal ports
with 3Gb/s per port data transfer support and gives you performance to burn!
You’ll get great performance from individual drives (JBOD), but grouping up to four
SATA hard drives in a RAID 0 (striped) array will provide astonishing sustained read/write performance numbers enough to capture and process High Definition video!
Want more security? Set up your drives in a RAID
1 (mirrored) or RAID 10 (striped/mirrored) array for up to 1 Terabyte of data redundancy.
When you need more flexibility and performance than offered by standard solutions, get a Tempo SATA E4i—it’ll give you room to grow and blazing performance for the most demanding applications.
Features:
PCI Express (PCIe) x4 Card - Mac G5 Dual Core/Quad Core and Windows XP compatible
4 internal 3 Gb/s SATA II ports
Backwards compatible with 1.5Gb/s (SATA I) drives
Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support for compatibility with all SATA drives
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10, & JBOD
Supports Mac OS X and Windows XP RAID
Hot-swap drive support
Upgradeable firmware to enable future enhancements
Sonnet Tempo
SATA E4i, PCI Express (PCIe) SATA II Host Controller Specifications
4 internal SATA ports
PCI Express (PCIe) x4 Card
Up to 300 MB/sec data transfer rate per port (SATA II 3Gb/sec)
Bus Mastering frees CPU from data I/O handling
Sonnet 3 Year Warranty
System Requirements
Note: The Sonnet Tempo SATA E4i card does not currently support
bootable volumes
Desktop computer with available x4 PCI Express slot
Windows XP SP2, Vista
Power Mac G5 Dual-Core or Quad-Core with Mac OS X 10.3.x – 10.4.3 Not compatible with G5s having PCI-X slots.
If you are not sure what type of slots you have, check your manual.