Editorial Reviews
Product Description:No cables, no worries! Sonnet's Tempo Bridge board makes it a snap to use a parallel ATA drive in your G5, the first Apple computer to feature the new standard in disk drive technology, Serial ATA (SATA). Serial ATA offers greater performance than parallel ATA and uses smaller cables and connectors (instead of ribbon cables) for better cooling, but is not directly compatible with parallel ATA. If you need to use a parallel drive in your SATA-based computer, install a Tempo Bridge and make it compatible!The Tempo Bridge was engineered specifically for the Power Mac G5, but works in almost any computer with a Serial ATA interface. The board's design solves issues unique to the G5: it enables the user to mount a 3.5-inch parallel ATA drive in the G5's drive mounting bay and secure it with the computer's built-in latch, and directly connect the G5's short SATA data and power cables. Take the Tempo Bridge path to add a spare drive to your new G5!
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
Great Solution, November 10, 2006
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K. Triffet (Ventura, CA USA)
Good product, works well to adapt your ATA drive to SATA. File transfer seems as fast as SATA.
Great solution for me when I changed from G4 to G5 to be able put my old ATA drive in the second bay. Had 200 GB on the ATA. would have been painfully slow to move all the files over otherwise.
works fine, October 6, 2005
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R. Rippsive had no problems, besides the cable placement on the piece makes it difficult to set up the harddrives...insted of getting new harddrive cables i just have them sitting loose and works fine...not the best though
