Sonnet Tempo SATA II x4 PCIe Card (4 internal ports)

Do your storage capacity needs outweigh what your computer can support on its own? Stuff it—with Serial ATA drives, that is! Sonnet’s high-performance Tempo™ SATA E4i 4-port Serial ATA host controller for PCI Express slots enables you to connect up to 4 additional internal SATA hard drives for the perfect balance of easy expandability and superior performance. If you own a Power Mac G5, this card is an ideal companion to Sonnet’s G5 Jive™ internal drive mounting hardware for Power Mac G5 computers—along with your SATA drives, this combination is the most cost effective way for adding up to 12 Terabytes of high-performance storage capacity to your G5.

Do you need more speed? Tempo SATA E4i offers 3Gb/s per port data transfer support and gives you performance to burn. You’ll get great performance from individual drives, but grouping up to four Serial ATA hard drives in a RAID 0 (striped) set will provide astonishing sustained read/write performance numbers, enough to capture and process multiple streams of HD video. Need more data security? Set up your drives in a RAID 1 (mirrored) or RAID 10 (striped/mirrored) set for up to 6 Terabytes 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.

Key Features

High-performance interface for connecting four internal SATA drives inside a Power Mac® G5 or Windows® PC desktop computer

Supports OS X® 10.4+ and Microsoft Windows

3 Gb/s per port SATA II controller

Native PCI Express (PCIe) x4 host bus interface for high-performance applications

Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support for compatibility with all SATA drives

Supports hard drive hot-swapping⁽