Sonnet's Tempo Serial ATA PCI adapter card enables you to connect the latest Serial ATA (SATA) and parallel (IDE to Serial ATA converter required for parallel ATA drives and ATAPI devices-sold separately) hard drives to your older Macintosh computer. Take advantage of the higher data transfer rates and improved cabling performance that SATA offers. Watch your data fly at up to 1.5 Gbps without sacrificing integrity! Just install this card into your PCI slot and make the switch to Serial ATA. Now what could be easier?
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Sonnett SATA PCI Adapter, March 10, 2008
By
Jon E. Yoder (CHICAGO, IL)
I only bought this because I already had the SATA Drives. I worked great in my dual MDD. I could have just bought regular ATA drives.
Plugged in and it worked.
Sonnet Technologies TSATA PIC Card Review, October 5, 2007
By
Julio Martinez (NY NY)
I have a mac and the card intermitently cuts out and losses the drive I have connected to it. It spouts some crazy lettered error message to the system and that's it. You have to restart to get the drive back up. Very scary. Not sure how to fix this problem.
Allows Your Mac to Utilize Hard Drives Larger than 137 GB., June 3, 2005
By
C. Hughes (Santa Cruz, CA)
I own a 2001 Quicksilver G4 (OS X 10.4.1) that came with an 80 GB Western Digital Hard Drive. I do film work, so I need lots of space. I purchased a Seagate 300 GB Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive and this card (Sonnet's Tempo Serial 2-Port ATA PCI Adapter Card) was required for my Mac to read all 300 GBs.
Do you need this card?
First, check this website out:
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/index.shtml
If your computer is a 2002 Quicksilver or newer, then your computer is equipped with 48-bit addressing and you do NOT need this card. Your computer can read hard drives larger than 137 GB.
If your computer is a 2001 Quicksilver(like mine) or older, then you DO need this card in order for your computer to use hard drives larger than 137 GB.
REMEMBER! IF your computer was built with a Western Digital Hard Drive initially, and you want to add a second hard drive, you must switch the Western Digital to the MASTER Hard Drive and your other hard drive to the SLAVE. More info on that here:
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/add_2nd_drive/
